Passage
Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? For since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2 Peter 3:4 (DRB)
Nearby Context
2 Peter 3:2 That you may be mindful of those words which I told you before from the holy prophet and of your apostles, of the precepts of the Lord and Saviour.
2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first: That in the last days there shall come deceitful scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2 Peter 3:4 Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? For since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
2 Peter 3:5 For this they are wilfully ignorant of: That the heavens were before, and the earth out of water and through water, consisting by the word of God:
2 Peter 3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.
Study Lenses
The verse centers on "all things", "saying", "where", "promise", "coming", "since", "time", and "fathers". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "all things" and "saying", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 3's "Knowing this first That in the last..." into verse 5's "For this they are wilfully ignorant of...", so "all things" and "saying" belong inside that flow. In 2 Peter context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "all things" and "saying" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.