2 Esdras 7:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁰ I said, ‘That is right, lord.’ He said to me, ‘So also is Israel’s portion. ¹¹ For I made the world for their sake, and when Adam transgressed my statutes, what had been made was judged. ¹² And so the entrances of this world were made narrow and sorrowful and toilsome; they are few and evil, full of dangers and involved in great hardships.