The writer of Ecclesiastes XII sees to full the vanity of labour, pleasure, learning, of everything. In a cynical way, he says that man is no better than the beasts.
He deals with aspects of human life which are the same to-day as when they were written in this Book — it holds up the mirror to life, it deals with the struggles and sufferings of humanity in a light, poetic way, and suggests it is well not to worry too much about the seriousness of life.
The original writings were a well written essay which might well have been called "The Uselessness of This Life."
Crystallised, it might be put in a few words : "Life is made to be enjoyed, yet enjoyment is " vanity." Let us eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow we die."
The writer seems to smile at reformers who zealously attempt to change human life.
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1931 - Ecclesiastes XII - Bro Major-General H Gordon Bennett.
