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An adult sits beside opened empty storage jars while a child stands nearby, no invented mechanism of loss.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Ecclesiastes 5:12-13

Wealth Lost

Few Words and Wealth Without Rest · Ecclesiastes 5

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12There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its owner to his harm.

13And that wealth was lost through a harmful affair, and he fathered a son but had nothing in his hand.

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