2 Esdras 7:7-9

Common English Bible

⁷ Its entrance, however, is narrow and located on a precipice so that there is fire on the right and deep water on the left. ⁸ There is a single path located between them, between the fire and the water, and the path has only room for human footprints. ⁹ If that city is given to someone as an inheritance, if the heir doesn’t pass through the danger, how will the heir receive the inheritance?”