Then I answered and said, “O sovereign Lord, behold, you have ordained in your law that the righteous will inherit these things, but that the ungodly will perish.
KJV
2 Esdras 7:17
Then answered I and said, O Lord that bearest rule, thou hast ordained in thy law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the ungodly should perish.
Parallel Translations
Then said I, O Lord, Lord, seing thou hast ordeined in thy Law, that the righteous shulde inherite these things, and that the vngodlie shulde perish,