Verses 1 through 15 form a unit, the first sub unit of which is verses 1 through 8. We have learned from God through the words of Solomon that there is nothing lasting here. And He has made it perfectly clear that He has so ordered things that this would be true. Impermanence should drive people to God—the only One in Whom permanence and unchangeableness resides. Now, in order to illustrate what he has been saying, in verses 1 through 8 Solomon lists some of the changes that occur all the