2 Esdras 7:5

5 Who then could go into the sea to look upon it and to rule it? If he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?

2 Esdras 7:5 In-Context

3 And I said, "Speak on, my God." Then said he unto me, "The sea is set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great;

4 but suppose the entrance were narrow and like a river.

5 Who then could go into the sea to look upon it and to rule it? If he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?

6 There is also another thing: A city is built and set upon a broad field, and is full of all good things.

7 The entrance thereof is narrow and is set in a dangerous place to fall, as if there were a fire on the right hand and on the left a deep water,