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2 Esdras 4:10-12
Common English Bible
2 Esdras 4:10-12
Common English Bible
10 He said to me: “You can’t even understand the things that are yours, which you have grown up with. 11 How then can your mind[a] contain the way of the Most High? How can a person who is already corrupted by the corrupt world understand the realm beyond corruption?”
I fell on my face 12 and said to him, “It would have been better not to have come into being than to come here, live in the middle of wickedness, suffer, and not understand why.”
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