apart from God. In other words, his hopelessness is the result of the curse of the fall without recourse to God’s redemption.”413 Ecclesiastes is more nuanced than this. Qohelet demonstrates the futility of trying to find meaning in a fallen world apart from remembering one’s Creator and starting with the fear of the LORD, but he also affirms life, and he resolves this tension at the conclusion of his journey precisely through his exhortation to remember one’s Creator. Thus the futility Ecclesiastes