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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

To better understand the message of Qoheleth, we must also understand the goal of his search. As early as the third verse, Qoheleth asks a key question: “What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?” (1:3). The key term in that question is the noun “gain” (yithron); it is the goal of his search. What is yithron? As mentioned earlier this noun does not occur in the rest of the Old Testament. But its root ythr does occur, referring
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