Ecclesiastes 12:8 meaning and explanation
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”
Ecclesiastes 12:8, Berean Standard Bible
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The Teacher, the speaker of Ecclesiastes, closes his long search for meaning by returning to the phrase that opened the book (1:2). Having traced old age and death in the verses just before, he sums up life "under the sun" apart from God: hevel, a Hebrew word for vapor or breath, rendered here as futility.
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