biblical texts. Qohelet is not Camus.3 With the word hebel he refers to the fragile, fleeting nature of existence, which should cause us to seize the moment and live well in it before God, while at the same time leading us to spurn the desire for any control of life and to disdain that insane grasping after yitron, which so often characterizes human activity. We will translate and interpret hebel in a manner that fits this general context, stressing the ephemerality of existence or its elusiveness
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