programmed—as if designed. This would not be emblematic of meaninglessness, yet all is vanity nonetheless. In Solomon’s description of these natural cycles he is giving hints of what is to come: there is a Designer who gives meaning. Apart from Him, there can be found none. [7] All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. More cycles … more systematic process of the earth with no consideration for the brevity of human