This Life addresses both religious and secular audiences. I invite the religious (and the religiously inclined) to ask themselves if they actually have faith in eternity and if this faith is compatible with the care that animates their lives. Furthermore, I encourage both religious and secular readers to see why the finitude of our lives should not

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“When the word is used metaphorically,” Leithart clarifies, “it emphasizes the ephemerality and elusiveness of human existence. Human life is hebel (Pss. 39:4–11; 78:33; Job 7:16) because it is impermanent, because we change and ultimately die.” When the Teacher describes “everything” as hebel (Eccles. 1:2), “he’s not saying that everything is

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