2 Esdras 7:125-127

Revised Standard Version

^55 125 Or that the faces of those who practiced self-control shall shine more than the stars, but our faces shall be blacker than darkness? ^56 126 For while we lived and committed iniquity we did not consider what we should suffer after death.”

^57 127 He answered and said, “This is the meaning of the contest which every man who is born on earth shall wage,