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An adult lies awake on a plain bed beside unfinished work while night light touches the room.
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Ecclesiastes 2:22-23

A Heart Without Rest

Pleasure, Labor, and What Remains · Ecclesiastes 2

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22For what does a man gain from all his labor and from the striving of his heart with which he toils under the sun?

23For all his days are painful, and his work is frustration; even in the night his heart does not lie down. This too is vapor.

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