'Is there a way to select a specific parent using XPath?

From the reading I've done so far I don't think it's possible but in the off chance it is, here goes:

Given the following overly simplified HTML (based on HTML generated from a CMS, so no real control over it)

<div class="random">
  <div class="random"> <-- This is the one I want
    <div class="random">
      <div class="random">
        <span class="random">
          <input id="experiment-randomnumbers-textinput-2">
        </span>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

I have hacked together the following XPath expression to get the node that I want:

//input[contains(@id,'experiments') and contains(@id,'textinput-2')]/parent::span/parent::div/parent::div/parent::div

The question is, is there a neater way of doing this? I'm assuming it can't be done in CSS?

Cheers

Rob

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