Koheleth

The Hebrew name of this book is Koheleth, respecting the meaning of which there has been much discussion.

He also supplies Koheleth with a text by the pessimistic exclamation, “For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men”!

There was, as we see in Koheleth, a prevailing tradition that Solomon felt the hollowness of his palatial life.

Koheleth, though his quotations are godless, believes there is a God, and a formidable one.

In Koheleth it is written: "To add to knowledge is to add to pain."