If therefore you lightly and suddenly destroy him which with so great labor was fashioned by your commandment, to what purpose was he made?
KJV
2 Esdras 8:14
If therefore thou shalt destroy him which with so great labour was fashioned, it is an easy thing to be ordained by thy commandment, that the thing which was made might be preserved.
Parallel Translations
Seing then that thou destroyest him, which with so great labours is facioned, it is an easie thing to appoint by thy commandement, that the thing also which is made, might be preserued.