2 Now I will tell you a parable, Esdras. Just as when you ask the earth, it will say to you that it gives very much clay from which earthen vessels are made, but little dust that gold comes from. Even so is the course of the present world. (WEB)
2 Esdras 8:2
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2 Esdras 10:13–15
13 but it is with the earth after the manner of the earth. The multitude present in it has gone as it came. (WEB) 14 Then say I to you, ‘Just as you have brought forth with sorrow, even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, people, ever since the beginning to him… (WEB)
Mandates 43:17–19
17 But do thou trust the Spirit that cometh from God, and hath power; but in the earthly and empty spirit put no trust at all; for in it there is no power, for it cometh from the devil. (HER) 18 Listen [then] to the parable which I shall tell thee. Take a stone, and throw… (HER)
2 Esdras 9:16–18
16 like a wave is greater than a drop.” (WEB) 17 He answered me, “Just as the field is, so also the seed. As the flowers are, so are the colors. As the work is, so also is the judgment on it. As is the farmer, so also is his threshing floor. For there was a time in the wo… (WEB)
2 Esdras 5:47–49
47 I said, “She can’t, but must do it each in their own time.” (WEB) 48 Then said he to me, “Even so, I have given the womb of the earth to those who are sown in it in their own times. (WEB) 49 For just as a young child may not give birth, neither she who has grown old any more, ev… (WEB)
2 Esdras 4:20–22
20 Then answered he me, and said, “You have given a right judgment. Why don’t you judge your own case? (WEB) 21 For just as the ground is given to the wood, and the sea to its waves, even so those who dwell upon the earth may understand nothing but what is upon the earth.… (WEB)
2 Esdras 4:25–27
25 What will he then do for his name by which we are called? I have asked about these things.” (WEB) 26 Then he answered me, and said, “If you are alive you will see, and if you live long, you will marvel, for the world hastens quickly to pass away. (WEB) 27 For it is not able to b… (WEB)
Job 22:23–25
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents 24 and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines, 25 then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.
Lamentations 4:1–3
1 How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner. 2 How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter’s hands! 3 E…
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