V.1-3 If much learning will not satisfy the heart, will joking and pleasure and entertainment bring contentment? No.
V.4-11 Well, then, what about a good, hard work to make the world a nicer, cleaner, prettier place in which to live? What about getting “things” for ourselves? Verse 11 repeats the same sad ending.
V.12-19 If all that he had discovered about life was true, what difference did it make whether a man was wise or foolish? The “one event” that happens to all is death which ends everything here on earth, so why work so hard just to leave all to others? Without the good news of God’s salvation, what emptiness in life.
V.20-21 Solomon left all to his son Rehoboam who did not profit from his father’s wisdom. Are we learning from Solomon?
V.22-26 As some say, “eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die!” What a terrible way to live.