2 Esdras 16:47
King James VersionSource notes
“And they that occupy their merchandise with robbery, the more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons:”
Context
44They that marry, as they that shall get no children; and they that marry not, as the widowers.
45And therefore they that labour labour in vain:
46For strangers shall reap their fruits, and spoil their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captives, for in captivity and famine shall they get children.
47And they that occupy their merchandise with robbery, the more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons:
48The more will I be angry with them for their sin, saith the Lord.
49Like as a whore envieth a right honest and virtuous woman:
50So shall righteousness hate iniquity, when she decketh herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he cometh that shall defend him that diligently searcheth out every sin upon earth.