Qoheleth uses the word translated here as eternity in other settings (such as 1:4, 10; 2:16; 3:14; 9:6), it is with “eternal time” in view. We cannot be far from Qoheleth’s meaning if we assume that this is how he uses it here also, given the “time” framework. For this reason we assume that Qoheleth is arguing that God has placed an “awareness of things eternal” into the human mind. TEV says “he has given us a desire to know the future” but we feel there is a difficulty with this, for although it