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Back to SearchEcclesiastes 7:15–29: Fishing for Righteousness, But the Nets are Empty
The Preacher goes looking for a righteous person on earth and comes back empty-handed. Be righteous, he says, but not so righteous you destroy yourse…
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Ecclesiastes 6:10–7:14: Funeral Crashers: Why Wisdom is Found in Mourning
Qoheleth gives advice that no lifestyle brand will ever print on a candle: go to the funeral, skip the party. The house of mourning beats the house o…
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Ecclesiastes 5:8–6:9: The Midas Trap: Money Never Satisfies
The Preacher watches the money pile up and asks the obvious question nobody wants to hear: what exactly did it get you? Riches hoarded bring anxiety,…
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Ecclesiastes 5:1–7: Shut Up and Listen: Let Your Words Be Few
Qoheleth walks into the temple and tells everyone to stop talking. Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than …
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Ecclesiastes 3:16–4:16: Looking for Righteousness in all the Wrong Places
Qoheleth looks at the place of justice and finds wickedness there. He looks at the place of righteousness and finds wickedness there too. The oppress…
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Ecclesiastes 3:1–15: Turn, Turn, Turn: For Everything There is a Season
For everything there is a season: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up. The poem is so famous it became a pop …
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Ecclesiastes 2:12–26: Equal Opportunity Grave: The Wise Man Dies Just Like the Fool
The Preacher turns from his experiments to face the one fact that wrecks every human résumé: the wise man and the fool end up in the same hole. Qohel…
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Ecclesiastes 1:12–2:11: Been There, Done Everything: Solomon's Experiment in Excess
The Preacher sets up the grandest controlled experiment in history: what if you had unlimited resources and tried every possible avenue to meaning? W…
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Ecclesiastes 1:1-11: Vanity of Vanities! All is Vanity!
The Preacher (Qoheleth) takes the stage and delivers his verdict before the book even gets going: everything is vapor. Generations rise and fall, the…
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The Book of Ecclesiastes
What does a man gain from all his toil under the sun? Solomon asked that question three thousand years ago, and it still cuts. Ecclesiastes is the Bi…
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