as: “This book is one of the more difficult books in all of Scripture, one which no one has ever completely mastered,”2 and “Two thousand years of interpretation … have utterly failed to solve the enigma,”3 and (my favorite) “Ecclesiastes is a lot like an octopus: just when you think you have all the tentacles under control—that is, you have understood the book—there is one waving about in the air!”4 And so while I could start this commentary on Ecclesiastes by saying something bold such as “None