2 Esdras 4:12
“Then said I vnto him, It were better that we were not at all, then that we should liue still in wickednesse, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.”
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2 Esdras 4:12 Context
10He said moreouer vnto me, Thine owne things, and such as are growen vp with thee, canst thou not know. 11How should thy vessel then bee able to comprehend the way of the highest, and the world being now outwardly corrupted, to vnderstand the corruption that is euident in my sight? 12Then said I vnto him, It were better that we were not at all, then that we should liue still in wickednesse, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore. 13He answered me and said, I went into a forest into a plaine, and the trees tooke counsell, 14And said, Come, let vs goe and make warre against the Sea, that it may depart away before vs, and that we may make vs more woods.
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Then said I unto him, It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.
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