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2 Esdras 7:15-19 World English Bible (WEB)

15. Now therefore why you disquiet yourself, seeing you are but a corruptible man? and why are you moved, whereas you are but mortal?

16. and why have you not considered in your mind that which is to come, rather than that which is present?

17. Then answered I and said, O Lord that bear rule, behold, you have ordained in your law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the ungodly should perish.

18. The righteous therefore shall suffer strait things, and hope for wide: but they that have done wickedly have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.

19. And he said to me, You are not a judge above God, neither have you understanding above the Most High.