2 Esdras 9:16

16 just as a wave is greater than a drop."

2 Esdras 9:16 In-Context

14 I answered,

15 "I said before and now will say again that those who perish are more numerous than those who are saved,

16 just as a wave is greater than a drop."

17 He answered me: "As the field is, so is the seed; and as the flowers, so also the colors; as the labor, so also the product; and as the farmer, so the threshing floor.

18 There was a time in this world—when I was preparing for those who now are, before the world in which they would dwell was made for them—no one opposed me, because no one existed yet.