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2 Esdras 4:11-13
Common English Bible
2 Esdras 4:11-13
Common English Bible
11 How then can your mind[a] contain the way of the Most High? How can a person who is already corrupted by the corrupt world understand the realm beyond corruption?”
I fell on my face 12 and said to him, “It would have been better not to have come into being than to come here, live in the middle of wickedness, suffer, and not understand why.”
13 He answered me: “I went forth to a forest of trees on the plain,[b] and they devised a plan
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- 2 Esdras 4:11 Lat cup
- 2 Esdras 4:13 Lat; Syr Once upon a time the forests of trees on the plain set forth
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