2 Esdras 4:12
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CEB
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.”
NRSVA
and said to him, ‘It would have been better for us not to be here than to come here and live in ungodliness, and to suffer and not understand why.’
NRSVUE
and said to him, “It would have been better for us not to be here than to come here and live in ungodliness and to suffer and not understand why.”
RSV
and said to him, “It would be better for us not to be here than to come here and live in ungodliness, and to suffer and not understand why.”
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