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v • d • e « Ecclesiastes » Inspired in the Hebrew language « Proverbs « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 » Song of Songs » Greek Latin English Hebrew Greek:Ecclesiastes Latin:Ecclesiastes Traditional Literal Traditional:Ecclesiastes English:Ecclesiastes Hebrew:Ecclesiastes There is also a Targum for this book, a translation-as-commentary, or a paraphrase

21st book of the Bible.

Outline

Title (1:1)

• A. Life's Brevity (1:2-11)
  • B. Wisdom's Failure (1:12-2:26)
    • C. Time (3:1-15)
      • D. Fear of God (3:16-6:12)
    • C' Time (7:1-14)
  • B' Wisdom's Failure (7:15-10:19)
• A' Life's Brevity (10:20-12:8)

Conclusion (12:9-14)

Ecclesiastes does not teach that because there is no meaning in pleasure, wealth, learning, or power - one must finally come to find one's hope in God. It is not a sermon devoted to the futile search for happiness and meaning without God. That is a true message and a biblical one, but it does not happen to be the teaching of the book of Ecclesiastes.

When the preacher says, "Meaningless! Meaningless! Everything is meaningless!" he doesn't mean that life is actually meaningless. He does not even mean that at one time he came to the conclusion that life was meaningless. What he means is that you cannot find out its meaning; you cannot discover what God is doing in the world; you cannot even discover what God is doing in your own life. There is a mystery about God's ways, an inexplicable opaqueness to divine providence. God does not act in the ways we might have expected; many things in this world do not turn out as we think they would or should. God's ways are not our ways. The Bible, of course, teaches us this fact in many ways and in many places, but it is the special theme of Ecclesiastes. The author does not leave us in the dark about this. He states his theme and repeats it a number of times.

• Ecclesiastes 3:10, 11
• Ecclesiastes 3:22
• Ecclesiastes 7:14
• Ecclesiastes 7:27

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