2 Esdras 7:12

12 and the entrances of this world were made narrow, sorrowful, and troublesome. They are few and bad, full of dangers and involving people in great hardships.

2 Esdras 7:12 In-Context

10 I said, "Indeed, Lord." He said to me: "So also is Israel's portion. I indeed made the world on account of them.

11 When Adam transgressed my ordinances, what had been made was judged,

12 and the entrances of this world were made narrow, sorrowful, and troublesome. They are few and bad, full of dangers and involving people in great hardships.

13 The entrances of the greater world, however, are spacious and secure, and they generate the fruit of immortality.

14 If those who live don't enter these narrow and empty places, they can't receive the things that are in store.