15 Now therefore why are you disturbed, seeing you are but a corruptible man? Why are you moved, since you are mortal? (WEB) 16 Why haven’t you considered in your mind that which is to come, rather than that which is present?” (WEB) 17 Then I answered and said, “O sovereign Lord, behold, you have ordained in your law that the righteous will inherit these things, but that the ungodly will perish. (WEB)
2 Esdras 7:15–17
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