Whoever desires to go into the sea to look at it, or to rule it, if he didn’t go through the narrow entrance, how could he come into the broad part?
KJV
2 Esdras 7:5
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?
Parallel Translations
Who colde go into the sea to loke vpon it, and to rule it? If he went not thorowe the narowe, how colde he come into the broade?