2 Esdras 16:42-44

Common English Bible

⁴² Let the person who sells be like a person who is about to run away, and let the person who buys be like a person who is about to lose. 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;