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Ecclesiastes: 'All is vapor'
Kohelet, the teacher, searches for meaning in work, pleasure, and wisdom, and keeps finding it all to be vapor, a chasing after wind.
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Even wisdom fails him: the wise die just like fools, and both are forgotten. Nothing endures, justice is hard to see, and death equalizes all. The book never mentions Israel or Yhwh by name.
Bible reference: Ecclesiastes 2:11–17
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 426–428
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