King James Version with Apocrypha
“Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?”
— 2 Esdras 7:5, King James Version with Apocrypha
And he said unto me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell thee.
And I said, Speak on, my God. Then said he unto me, The sea is set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great.
But put the case the entrance were narrow, and like a river;
Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?
There is also another thing; A city is builded, and set upon a broad field, and is full of all good things:
The entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water:
And one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.