The existential reality Ecclesiastes points to is the invariable tension which exists between faith and sight in this world and the call for us to acknowledge the evil which exists but without compromising our faith in either God’s omnipotence or divine goodness. What Ecclesiastes does which many theodicies do not do—secular or religious—is to call us to humbly recognise that there is more to reality than that which we experience ‘under the sun’. There is the transcendent. This is what will ultimately