Sublime

Mordecai teaches an important lesson: How does one show gratitude and happiness? By helping to improve the lot of those less fortunate.

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9He who loves money will not be sated with money, and he who loves wealth will have no crop. This, too, is mere breath.

This seeming contradiction is perhaps best understood as a swing of feeling in an ambivalent Qohelet. He knows as a matter of observation that the wicked flourish with no sign of retribution, but he wants, desperately, to cling to the idea that there is nevertheless a divine moral order in which the righteous are rewarded and the wicked punished.