2 Esdras 7:49

49 what profit is it unto us if there be promised us an immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death?

2 Esdras 7:49 In-Context

47 For what profit is it for men now in this present time to live in heaviness and after death to look for punishment?

48 O thou Adam, what hast thou done? For though it was thou that sinned, thou art not fallen alone, but we all who come from thee.

49 what profit is it unto us if there be promised us an immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death?

50 And that there is promised us an everlasting hope, whereas ourselves, being most wicked, are made vain?

51 And that there are laid up for us dwellings of health and safety, whereas we have lived wickedly?