2 Esdras 9:15-17

Common English Bible

¹⁵ “I said before and now will say again that those who perish are more numerous than those who are saved, ¹⁶ just as a wave is greater than a drop.”

¹⁷ He answered me: “As the field is, so is the seed; and as the flowers, so also the colors; as the labor, so also the product;^[a] and as the farmer, so the threshing floor.