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it just seems pointless. In other words, what

profit, what gain hath a man of all his labor

which he taketh under the sun? The

expression "under the sun" is interesting.

It’s used 29 times in this book in about 27

verses, and this term just simply is

describing this life that you and I live, our

life on this earth, not the hereafter. You see,

man must look above the sun to find divine

revelation. He must look unto God. But

“under the sun” is just describing our

everyday life, the things that we do, our

activities throughout our life. That's what

this term means. And, again, we're talking

now about life that is lived without God; it's

vain, vanity of vanities, all is vain. So in the

remainder of this chapter, Solomon is going

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