Koheleth’s Attempts to Find Meaning in Life
Ecclesiastes 1–2 (selections)
Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE
Chaprer 1
12I, Koheleth, was king in Jerusalem over Israel. 13I set my mind to study and to probe with wisdom all that happens under the sun.—An unhappy business, that, which God gave men to be concerned with! 14I observed all the happenings beneath the sun, and I found that all is futile and pursuit of wind: [ . . . ].
17I set my mind to appraise…
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