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Ecclesiastes 2:11
Excerpted from: Ecclesiastes and the Feast of Tabernacles (Part 2)Solomon kept his wits about him in all of this, but verse 11 is saying the morning after the night before finally arrived—the time he had to give sober thought to what had been accomplished in his life. It almost literally means (when it says, "I looked on all the works that my hands had done"), translated into English, "The time came to face the facts."
He finds that though there had been pleasure in being busy in accomplishing, there was no real gain in terms of meaning of life. When he says, "vanity of vanities," he does not mean that nothing was accomplished from them. Certainly there was a measure of good accomplished from them, but they were disillusioning in terms that it did not give him lasting satisfaction.
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