There is a theological undercurrent that runs through the book of Ecclesiastes and breaks through again and again. We see it when Solomon affirms that “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die …” (Eccl. 3:1–2), but it appears elsewhere, too. Solomon writes: “I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it” (3:14); “Consider the work of God;