Ecclesiastes 4 stands within a book whose subject is the emptiness of human life. That book exposes human pursuits as profitless and without lasting worth when they are carried on apart from God. The verse therefore belongs to a larger demonstration that existence under the sun, separated from God, resolves into vanity.
Ecclesiastes 4 stands within a book whose subject is the emptiness of human life. That book exposes human pursuits as profitless and without lasting worth when they are carried on apart from God. The verse therefore belongs to a larger demonstration that existence under the sun, separated from God, resolves into vanity.