2 Esdras 16:43-45

Common English Bible

⁴³ Let one who does business be as one who makes no profit; one who builds as one who won’t get to live in the building; ⁴⁴ one who sows as one who will not reap; one who prunes as one who will not harvest; ⁴⁵ those who get married as people who will have no children; and those who don’t marry as though they were widowed,