2esd 7:5
King James Version
“Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?”
Context
2And he said unto me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell thee.
3And I said, Speak on, my God. Then said he unto me, The sea is set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great.
4But put the case the entrance were narrow, and like a river;
5Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?
6There is also another thing; A city is builded, and set upon a broad field, and is full of all good things:
7The entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water:
8And one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.