2 Esdras 16:44-46

Common English Bible

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.