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Ecclesiastes: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

“If it needs a man who has suffered to write a commentary on Job.… Perhaps the only person entitled to comment on Ecclesiastes is a cynic who has revolted from the world in disillusionment and disgust.” “If so,” writes Michael Eaton, “I qualify.” Scholars have long wrestled with the gloomy pessimism and striking omission of any mention of Yahweh in this portion of the Wisdom literature. After...

perish in his righteousness, whereas the wickedness of a Jezebel (1 Kgs 18–19; 21) may persist. The anomaly frequently perplexed the devout Israelite (cf. Job. Pss 37; 73; Hab. 1:13–17). The blunt statement with no explanation (except perhaps 7:29) demands simply that the believer face life in this world as it really is. Forewarned is forearmed (cf. 1 Pet. 4:12). 16. The Preacher warns against two opposing moral dangers. The first some interpreters take as indifference to morality (cf. Barton) or
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