2 Esdras 7:16

16 Why haven't you focused your mind on what is still to come, rather than on what is present?"

2 Esdras 7:16 In-Context

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

15 Therefore, why are you disturbed, being corruptible, and why are you upset, being mortal?

16 Why haven't you focused your mind on what is still to come, rather than on what is present?"

17 I answered: "Supreme Lord, you ordained in your Law that the just will inherit these things, but the impious will perish.

18 The just then can tolerate the narrow, hoping for the spacious, but those who have acted impiously endure the narrow and won't see the spacious."