45. And I answered, I said even then, O Lord, and I say now: blessed are they that be now alive and keep the statutes ordained of you.
46. But as touching them for whom my prayer was made, what shall I say? for who is there of them that be alive that has not sinned, and who of the sons of men that has not transgressed your covenant?
47. And now I see, that the world to come shall bring delight to few, but torments to many.
48. For an evil heart has grown up in us, which has led us astray from these statutes, and has brought us into corruption and into the ways of death, has showed us the paths of perdition and removed us far from life; and that, not a few only, but well near all that have been created.
49. And he answered me, and said, Hearken to me, and I will instruct you; and I will admonish you yet again:
50. for this cause the Most High has not made one world, but two.
51. For whereas you have said that the just are not many, but few, and the ungodly abound, hear the answer thereto.
52. If you has choice stones exceeding few, will you set for you over against them according to their number things of lead and clay?
53. And I said, Lord, how shall this be?
54. And he said to me, Not only this, but ask the earth, and she shall tell you; entreat her, and she shall declare to you.