2 Esdras 16:49
King James VersionSource notes
“Like as a whore envieth a right honest and virtuous woman:”
Context
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.
51And therefore be ye not like thereunto, nor to the works thereof.
52For yet a little, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign among you.