2 Esdras 7:14-16

Common English Bible

¹⁴ If those who live don’t enter these narrow and empty places, they can’t receive the things that are in store. ¹⁵ Therefore, why are you disturbed, being corruptible, and why are you upset, being mortal? ¹⁶ Why haven’t you focused your mind on what is still to come, rather than on what is present?”