Ecclesiastes Qoh.2:15-16. Like Jesus, every human being has enough memories in his past to occupy his time and thoughts continually. It is not the remembrance of these incidents but the reliving ...

Ecclesiastes Qoh.2:12-13. You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, ...

Ecclesiastes has some things to say about COVID-19. The ancient wisdom text urges us to find joy in the limits of the present moment. ... (2:18–21). To add insult to injury, at the end of his ...

Thus Ecclesiastes 2:5’s “I made gardens and orchards for myself and planted them with every kind of fruit tree” is an allusion to the Garden of Eden, tilled by Adam.

In my first semester of college as a classics major, I translated from Latin the opening passage of the ancient book of Ecclesiastes. This wasn’t ever a book I came across in parochial school or ...