Week 35 Ecclesiastes
A couple of days ago I checked how often the Preacher used the word Vanity – I counted nineteen (vanity is used twenty-six times in the OT).
Today I looked up the word Wisdom and saw he mentioned it about twenty-seven times.
Thinking about the two words my instinct is to turn them into opposites – VANITY vs. WISDOM. I write VANITY on one side of a page then draw a thick black line down the centre and write WISDOM on the other. Opponents.
But the thing is I’m not certain the Preacher is saying that. I think on his page he’s writing VANITY on the left side and on the right side writing NON-VANITY (or some heading like that). Those are the real opposites.
That leaves me with the question: where does WISDOM go? Well…I think it lands on the left side – under VANITY (if all-is-vanity means all then wisdom is part of the VANITY WORLD).
I’m not too jacked-up making wisdom a subset of vanity but I finished Ecclesiastes today so I have to move on. But for now I’m assuming that VANITY WORLD’s vanities are organized in a hierarchy set (meaning that wisdom – even if it is the highest vanity – still has room for improvement).
Note: one other thing I think is correct: the Preacher thinks there’s a different wisdom that is unique to the Lord.
End-of-month reading report: I finished the OT today. 1334 pages out of 1730…roughly 77%.