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A lone worker counts stored goods in an otherwise empty workshop.
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Ecclesiastes 4:7-8

For Whom Do I Labor

Oppression, Companionship, and Passing Favor · Ecclesiastes 4

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7Then I turned and saw vanity under the sun:

8There is one man, and he has no second; he has neither son nor brother, and there is no end to all his labor. Yet his eyes are not satisfied with wealth: “And for whom am I laboring and depriving myself of good?” This too is vanity and a grievous business.

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