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“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...

is condemned to increased toil, his work no longer being part of an original bliss (Gen. 2:15) but a daily toil imposed upon him in judgment (Gen. 3:19). Death is his ultimate physical destiny (Gen. 3:19b). These themes are obvious links between Ecclesiastes and Genesis. Genesis speaks of the earth as cursed (3:17); the Preacher speaks of the kinks (what is crooked) and gaps (what is lacking) in life, irrevocable (1:15) because imposed by God (7:13). In Genesis man is an unstable combination of dust
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