glory. In Ecclesiastes, as Solomon is looking back on how often he terminated his affections on the crumbs and not on the Bread from which they had fallen, he keeps coming back to one sad image: it is like “striving after wind” (1:14,17; 2:11,17, 26; 4:4, 6, 16; 6:9). It’s like chasing the wind, like trying to catch smoke. In Ecclesiastes, all the beauty and meaning Solomon sought in the world only satisfied for a moment and then it was gone, poof, like a vaporous nothing. He calls it “vanity” and “meaningless.” The whole tapestry of the world he is weaving becomes unraveled at the end of
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