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.
20. Yes, rather let many that now be perish, than that the law of God which is set before them be despised.
21. For God straitly commanded such as came, even as they came, what they should do to live, and what they should observe to avoid punishment.
22. Nevertheless they were not obedient to him; but spoke against him, and imagined for themselves vain things;
23. and framed cunning devices of wickedness; and said moreover of the Most High, that he is not; and knew not his ways:
24. but they despised his law, and denied his covenants; they have not been faithful to his statutes, and have not performed his works.
25. Therefore, Esdras, for the empty are empty things, and for the full are the full things.
26. For behold, the time shall come, and it shall be, when these tokens, of which I told you before, shall come to pass, that the bride shall appear, even the city coming forth, and she shall be seen, that now is withdrawn from the earth.
27. And whoever is delivered from the foresaid evils, the same shall see my wonders.
28. For my son Jesus shall be revealed with those that be with him, and shall rejoice them that remain four hundred years.
29. After these years shall my son Christ die of them that, and all that have the breath of life.