Handbook for Bible Students

Ecclesiastes

Key-word, “Vanity;” Key-verse, 2:11.-These “words of the Preacher,” in a sort of monologue, record results of experience and observation as to the life of man. Looked at from the loftiest level “under the sun,” all seems a dismal failure, “vanity and vexation.” Only when this world and the world to come are joined, do we get the whole of life; only when God and man are joined by faith and obedience, do we get the whole of man. (See 12:13, 14.) [p. 48] HBS 38.8