Even with all of the God-given wisdom Solomon possessed, and a lifetime of pursuing worldly things in order to find peace & joy…he now calls it all empty, fleeting, or as here, meaningless. That life became futile when he sought earthly & secular things rather than seeking after God. The Hebrew phrase translated “under the sun” occurs 28 times in the Book of Ecclesiastes and refers to life in this world…a life that has been adversely affected by the Fall. Which essentially means, a world without God. (For God exists “above the sun, or in Heaven” or as Ecclesiastes 5:2 says, “God is in Heaven and you are on earth.”) And sadly, it’s “‘under the sun” where all of mankind experiences the frustrating & perplexing side of this life, a life full of elusive fulfillment & empty joy…all because God is left out of the picture.
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