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A departing older worker sets tools down as a younger anonymous adult approaches without a resolved moral identity.
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Ecclesiastes 2:18-19

An Unknown Successor

Pleasure, Labor, and What Remains · Ecclesiastes 2

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18And I hated all my labor in which I toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

19And who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will rule over all that I labored for and applied wisdom to under the sun. This too is vanity.

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