Do you hear regret in Solomon’s words? Wise as he was, he made poor choices and paid the price for it. Some people think Ecclesiastes is a book of wisdom so profound that we people of average intelligence can’t fathom its depths, when it is mostly a windbag spouting man’s foolishness-posing-as-wisdom. Again, the key to understanding the book is to see most of it for the foolishness it is. The wisest man in the world could not make man’s wisdom truly wise, and is exposed as a fool to exercise man’s wisdom instead of the wisdom of God. Just because the author hits the nail on the head with a few obvious observations doesn’t make his ideas wise. So why is this book part of God’s word? One reason is that it does remind us of man’s need for Messiah’s transforming power. We’ll cover more possible reasons in the next two days.