Solomon comes to the end of his book talking about the end of life. How do we live this life knowing it won’t last forever? By the grace of God,…

Solomon delivers pointed advice for working in this inscrutable world. Though life is hevel, out of our control, this does not mean that wisdom and hard work are pointless. Despite…

In the fourth and final section of Ecclesiastes, the Preacher reinforces what he has already set out and pushes wisdom into the corners. Or to change the metaphor, he builds…

We have to look beyond appearances to understand prosperity, poverty, people, and now power. Rulers are a subset of mysterious mankind so king Solomon provides wisdom for dealing with those…

All is vapor and out of our control, and what is more mysterious than the wildest creature on earth—mankind? In this section Solomon has shown that outward appearances aren’t always…

God is the giver every good and perfect gift, as James says, but just because someone has received a lot does not mean he can enjoy it. Qoheleth addresses the…

God is sovereign over all things, and even though life is vapor and impossible for man to control, Solomon does not tell us to despair. Just because you are not…

The Lord will make everything beautiful in its time, but in the snapshot, it sure doesn’t look like it. The sovereignty of God is controversial because we have a hard…

The world and everything in it is completely out of our control, vapor of vapors. We experience endless cycles of repetition such that the more things change, the more they…

Solomon begins Ecclesiastes saying that human toil delivers no lasting gain on the earth. Now he describes how he came to that conclusion. He touched, tasted, felt, heard, sung, built,…