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Who Knows What is Good?: A Commentary of the Books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes is unavailable, but you can change that!

The “wise” of ancient Israel were concerned primarily with the nature of goodness and the character of faith: What is “good” for humankind, and how should they live their brief lives on earth? Although the books of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes are generally regarded as two distinctly different types of works, Kathleen A. Farmer demonstrates that they belong together, each to be read in the light of...

with speaking. The sense of the whole seems to be that no one can say everything there is to be said, because words, like sights and sounds, are hebel or “breathlike.” Speaking, seeing, and hearing are all things which have to be done over and over again. Our eyes and our ears cannot fill up with the sights we see or the sounds we hear, because sights and sounds cannot be grasped and kept any more than words which are uttered can be stored up or left over. Verses 9–11 claim that everything “under
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