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Ecclesiastes E1: Not Another Proverbs...

Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/wisdom-series-ecclesiastes-part-1/

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God & Work

What this book knows

Ecclesiastes earns its wisdom not from ancient authority but from lived experiment, exposing life's irreducible absurdity with the word hevel.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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faith-and-doubt

Ecclesiastes bases its wisdom off of experimentation — a first-person voice telling of a lifetime's worth of experiment: 'I tried th…'
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We get to Ecclesiastes and there's this massive turn — it puts some brakes on Proverbs.
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Even when you reach out and try to do the right thing and fear God, there's still that sense — it's disorienting, confusing, it's hevel.
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mortality

From under the sun, humans who are not transcendent see paradox — you most likely will never have the perspective to see what it means.
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Someone upright, writing books, killing it — and then really depressed, addicted. 'Man, you had it.' It really is gut-wrenching. It's hevel.
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God gives some people wealth, possessions, honor — everything their heart desires — and then they didn't even truly get to enjoy it.
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