2 Esdras 7:8

8 and only one path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.

2 Esdras 7:8 In-Context

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,

8 and only one path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.

9 If this city now were given unto a man for an inherit-ance, if he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he receive this inheritance?"

10 And I said, "It is so, Lord." Then said He unto me, "Even so also is Israel's portion.