King Solomon of Israel is the supposed author of, FTP, what meditation on futility that follows Proverbs in the Old Testament and includes verses about there being a time for every purpose under heaven?
The tenth section of this work notes that "dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a foul odor" and that the "heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left." The whole work is spoken in the first person until the end, when a third-person narrator says that the moral of the work is "Fear God and keep his commandments, for that is the whole duty of man." The narrator had tried both learning and hedonism and found them equally pointless, as he explains with such aphorisms as "the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong" and that "that which is done is that which shall be done, and there is no new thing under the sun." King Solomon of Israel is the supposed author of, FTP, what meditation on futility that follows Proverbs in the Old Testament and includes verses about there being a time for every purpose under heaven?
The tenth section of this work notes that "dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a foul odor" and that the "heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes or The Book of the Preacher or Qoheleth