11. Envying Vapor | Ecclesiastes 4:4-8

Today we are in Ecclesiastes Chapter 4 where Solomon will talk about work and rest in the context of life “under the sun.” The book of Ecclesiastes keeps coming back to center on the idea of what happens when you get everything you ever thought you wanted, when you attain whatever goal you set for yourself, and then you wake up the next morning and you are still you…what do you do then? It shows how life and our work seems to fall apart on a constant basis which makes the writer call it all “meaningless” or “vapor” or “vanity.”