2 Esdras 7:8-10

Common English Bible

⁸ There is a single path located between them, between the fire and the water, and the path has only room for human footprints. ⁹ If that city is given to someone as an inheritance, if the heir doesn’t pass through the danger, how will the heir receive the inheritance?”

¹⁰ I said, “Indeed, Lord.”

He said to me: “So also is Israel’s portion. I indeed made the world on account of them.