He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

“Behold, I have discovered this,” says the Preacher, “adding one thing to another to find an explanation,

which I am still seeking but have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all these.

Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.”

But there was found in it a poor wise man and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.

The Preacher sought to find delightful words and to write words of truth correctly.