2 Baruch 46

1And my son and the elders of the people answered and said to me, "Has the Mighty One humbled us so greatly as to take you from us so suddenly?

2Truly, we shall be in darkness, and there will be no light for the people who are left.

3For where shall we seek the law again, or who will guide us from the house of death into life?"

4And I said to them, "I cannot stand against the will of the Mighty One. Yet Israel will not lack a wise man, nor the seed of Jacob a son of the law.

5But prepare your hearts so that you may listen to the law and hold fast to understanding.

6For if you do these things, hope will rest upon you— those things that were spoken to you before.

7And you will not fall into the torment about which it was told you beforehand."

8But the word concerning my being taken up I did not make known to them, nor to my son.