The book of Ecclesiastes is another wisdom book as was Proverbs, and it too is attributed to Solomon as was Proverbs. The author thinks through human life and considers that human endeavour and the seeking of pleasure to be "chasing the wind" in that nothing lasts, with the inevitability of death being the great party pooper.
Chapter 1 explodes initially with: "Meaningless... utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless... what does man get out of all his work?... the earth and all its forces just carries on... what has been will be again... there is nothing new under the sun... I, says Solomon, have studied this and can see that everything under the sun is meaningless just chasing after the wind... and so wisdom, madness and folly all add up to the same thing as with wisdom comes much sorrow".
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