Ecclesiastes: and the Search for Meaning
If there is not, as Qohelet seems inclined to conclude, he enjoins us to make the most of what we have while we have it—to enjoy in measured fashion good food and wine and a woman one loves, if only the unpredictable course of circumstances makes a person lucky enough to possess these things.
Robert Alter • The Hebrew Bible
16 I said to myself, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.” 17And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a chasing after wind.[3] 18 For in much wisdom is much vexation, “NOTHING NEW UND
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Now Qohelet swings back to the other pole of his ambivalence—one might say, from moral hopefulness to unblinking observation.
Robert Alter • The Hebrew Bible
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