2 Esdras 7:9
King James VersionSource notes
“If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance, if he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he receive this inheritance?”
Context
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.
9If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance, if he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he receive this inheritance?
10And I said, It is so, Lord. Then said he unto me, Even so also is Israel’s portion.
11Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.
12Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail: they are but few and evil, full of perils,: and very painful.