What is Solomons answer in Ecclesiastes 8:15 to the perplexity of evil in the world?
– 8:15 — Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. – Solomon essentially says the same thing in other passages. – Ecclesiastes 2:24 — There is nothing better for a man, that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. (Solomon said this after despairing because he would have to leave all for which he had labored to someone else.) – Ecclesiastes 3:22 — Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? (Solomon expressed this after questioning whether the spirit of man went upward or the spirit of the beast went downward to the earth.) – His sense of inner turmoil seems revealed by a statement
