Ecclesiastes Themes

Ecclesiastes is pretty determined to keep reminding you that you're going to die. He's not as freaked out as this kid, but he's definitely concerned about death. While Genesis puts human beings abo...

The theme of time is pretty closely related to the theme of death—because death is pretty much just running out of time. But Ecclesiastes has more to say about time than simply reminding us that...

Ecclesiastes hates folly and foolishness, hates 'em. All the same, he's been known to dip his toes into it. When he went out to experience wisdom, he experienced folly and foolishness too. "Don't k...

Life, says Ecclesiastes, is "an unhappy business," a "sore travail" that God has given to human beings to keep them occupied until they die. It's full of oppression—the wrong people keep getting...

We live inside mysteries, says Ecclesiastes. We can never know what's really going on—we're trapped into knowing that something greater than us exists, but we're powerless to know exactly what it...

Wisdom is last but definitely not least on this list—considering that it's, you know, the whole overarching purpose of Ecclesiastes's book. Yet, Ecclesiastes also says that wisdom increases sorro...