2 Esdras 7:125

125 Or that the faces of those who practiced self-control shall shine more than the stars, but our faces shall be blacker than darkness?

2 Esdras 7:125 In-Context

123 Or that a paradise shall be revealed, whose fruit remains unspoiled and in which are abundance and healing, but we shall not enter it

124 because we have lived in perverse ways?[ah]

125 Or that the faces of those who practiced self-control shall shine more than the stars, but our faces shall be blacker than darkness?

126 For while we lived and committed iniquity we did not consider what we should suffer after death.”

127 He answered and said, “This is the significance of the contest that all who are born on earth shall wage: