Modern relevancy? Injustice ~ chapter 4 Crooked politics ~ chapter 5 Materialism ~ chapter 5 Desire for the "good ol' days" ~ chapter 7 Incompetent leaders.

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Modern relevancy? Injustice ~ chapter 4 Crooked politics ~ chapter 5 Materialism ~ chapter 5 Desire for the "good ol' days" ~ chapter 7 Incompetent leaders ~ chapter 10 Guilty go free to commit more crime ~ chapter 8

“What is the Purpose of Life?” 1) Life is monotonous 2) What good is wealth? 3) What good is wisdom? 4) We all end up in the same place

Preacher ~ koheleth – one who calls an assembly, presents an issue and brings it to a conclusion

List all the sons of David who were kings over Israel: 1. Solomon

Vanity ~ hebel – literally, vapor or breath 38x in book Refers to that which is without substance

Profit ~ yithron – that which is left over 10x in book Opposite of hebel Under the sun ~ i.e. horizontally (29x)

The four ancient “elements": earth, fire, wind and water

1 Kings 4 ~ 22 Now Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour, sixty kors of meal, 23 ten fatted oxen, twenty oxen from the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fatted fowl.

Prov. 8 ~ 35 For whoever finds me (wisdom) finds life, And obtains favor from the Lord;

More than I ~ from the Masoretic text NIV, for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?

Oh, what a happy child I am Although I cannot see. I am resolved that in this world Contented I will be. How many blessings I enjoy That other people don't. To weep and sigh Because I'm blind, I cannot and I won't. – Fanny Crosby at age 8