2 Esdras 13:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ since they now know what lies in store for the last days, but they won’t live to see them. But how terrible it will be also for those who are left, ¹⁹ for that very reason! They will see great dangers, and there will be many kinds of distress, as these dreams show. ²⁰ Yet it is better^[a] to encounter these things, even incurring danger, than to pass from the world like a cloud and not see what happens at the end.”