Elements in the book supposedly suggest this outlook of securalist despair include (1) the repeated refrains, “everything is meaningless”100 “chasing after wind” and “under the sun,” which occurs twenty-nine times; (2) death’s finality, which removes any advantage or gain man may have acquired in life (2:14, 16, 18; 3:2, 19–20; 4:2; 5:15; 6:6, 12; 7:1; 8:8; 9:2–5, 10; 11:7–8; 12:7); (3) the fleeting, transitory nature of life (6:12; 7:15; 9:9; 11:10); (4) life’s inequities, including the frustrating