The sense of this theme passage is, then, that this life is vanity. And to make sure you get the point, “the all”—absolutely everything about it, the whole works—is vanity. No exceptions are allowed. There simply are no redeeming qualities in anything other than God himself. The secular world can always declare that it finds something, no matter how small, that it considers to be a redeeming factor in life. “I may be poor, but at least I have my health.” “I may have a tough job, but at least there