2 Esdras 16:43-46 Common English Bible (CEB)

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,

46. because those who toil, toil for no reason.

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