but silver is more abundant than gold, and brass than silver, and iron than brass, and lead than iron, and clay than lead.’
KJV
2 Esdras 7:56
For while we lived and committed iniquity, we considered not that we should begin to suffer for it after death.
Parallel Translations
For while we liued, we did not remember when we did vnrighteously, that we shulde suffer after death.