11 How then can your mind comprehend the way of the Most High? How can he who is already worn out with the corrupted world understand incorruption?” When I heard these things, I fell on my face (WEB) 12 and said to him, “It would have been better if we weren’t here at all, than that we should come here and live in the midst of ungodliness, and suffer, and not know why.” (WEB) 13 He answered me, and said, “A forest of the trees of the field went out, and took counsel together, (WEB)
2 Esdras 4:11–13
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2 Esdras 4:1–3
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2 Esdras 5:37–39
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2 Esdras 10:31–33
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2 Esdras 13:19–21
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2 Esdras 4:32–34
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