Ancient

Ecclesiastes

c. 3rd century BCE

The Preacher, in the Hebrew Bible

A book that lets a skeptical voice speak inside scripture. Vanity, season, the limits of wisdom: the King James translators gave it an English that later poets could not get away from.

In the canon

  1. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.Ecclesiastes
  2. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.Ecclesiastes

All voices