2 Esdras 7:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Why haven’t you focused your mind on what is still to come, rather than on what is present?”

¹⁷ I answered: “Supreme Lord, you ordained in your Law that the just will inherit these things, but the impious will perish. ¹⁸ The just then can tolerate the narrow, hoping for the spacious, but those who have acted impiously endure the narrow and won’t see the spacious.”