WISDOM J.I. Packer: Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty, acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours. Ecclesiastes 7:15-29 In my vain life I have seen everything. There is a righteous … [Read More...] Ecclesiastes 7:15-29

FOLLY R.A. Torrey: Men will give you many reasons why they are skeptics, many reasons why they are infidels and agnostics and atheists, but in the great majority of cases the real reason is this — men hope by the denial of the existence of God to hide themselves from the discomfort of God's acknowledged … [Read More...] Ecclesiastes 6:10-7:14

UNSATISFIED J.C. Ryle: Money, in truth, is one of the most unsatisfying of possessions. It takes away some cares, no doubt; but it brings with it quite as many cares as it takes away. There is trouble in the getting of it. There is the anxiety in the keeping it. There are the temptations in … [Read More...] Ecclesiastes 5:1-6:9

TIME Derek Kidner: We are like the desperately near-sighted, inching our way along a great tapestry or fresco in the attempt to take it in. We see enough to recognize something of its quality, but the grand design escapes us, for we can never stand back to view it as the Creator does, whole and … [Read More...] Ecclesiastes 3:1-15

TOIL G. Campbell Morgan: Ecclesiastes is an inspired confession of failure and pessimism, when God is excluded, when man lives under the sun, and forgets the larger part, which is always over the sun, the eternal and abiding things. If you want to know what a man of great privilege and of great learning and … [Read More...] Ecclesiastes 2:12-26