Ecclesiastes

Chantae’ Wilson

March 27, 2013

Week2 Ecclesiastes 3:1-10

The understanding that I get from first reading the passages is that; the writer seems to get the understanding that there will be ups and downs in everyone’s life time. There will not always be happiness or sadness, but in fact there will be a mixture of the two. I’m sure we all can think of a time, when everything was going your way and you seemed to be on top of the world and nothing could keep you from hold your head high. But just like that in a blink of an eye everything seemed to take a turn for the worst. Since read Ecclesiastes 3:1-10; I know that we all will experience the feelings of each verse and no one will be an exception to this.

The Language of the writing seems to be written in two different tones at the being to the end of Ecclesiastes, as stated in ("Getting to Know the Bible: Background Info for Ecclesiastes"). The association of the “teacher” and Solomon only lasts through the first three chapters. Because of this I came to the conclusion that this passage was wrote in different tones. In passage 3:1-10 I feel as though the writer has humbled his self and realized that he must face it and that nature will run its course, just as God intend it to. In this passage a time to be born, and a time to die. Throughout the succeeding catalogue marked contrasts are exhibited in pairs, beginning with the entrance and close of life, the rest of the list being occupied with events and circumstances which intervene between those two extremities ("Pulpit Commentaries"). Ecclesiastes 3: 2-8 are arranged in two parallel columns, so that one "time" always stands under another ("Pulpit Commentaries").

The time period of Ecclesiastes takes place while King Solomon was the king over Israel. The location of the writing of Ecclesiastes is Israel, during this time King Solomon what the second King of Israel. But after some of his passages the reader would think that there where many Kings before...