If your hope and joy is only in this life, you will be disappointed, but if your hope is in the Lord and in the life to come, you will find meaning.
BibleGateway: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 ESV Text: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 Ecclesiastes 1:1–11 (Listen) All Is Vanity 1:1 The words of the Preacher,1 the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 Vanity2 of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.5 The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens3 to the place where it rises.6 The wind blows to the south and goes around…