“There is one alone, without companion… Yet there is no end to all his labors” (Ecclesiastes 4:8, NKJV). This verse pictures a person working endlessly, alone, without anyone to share the labor or its fruit with.
The Preacher names this as genuinely sad, not admirable self-sufficiency, but a hollow kind of striving without companionship.
This is worth checking against any tendency to isolate in the name of productivity, treating relationships as a distraction from labor rather than part of a full life.
Where has your own labor been isolated lately, without companionship, in a way this verse names as genuinely lacking rather than efficient?