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Ecclesiastes 8:16

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16 I applied my mind to know wisdom and to understand the business that is done on earth--how neither day nor night one's eyes see sleep.

16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night—

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