Today, I am reading and commenting on  Ecclesiastes 7-12.

Near the beginning of today’s passage the writer tells us that the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning and the heart of the fool is in the house of pleasure.  Yet later in the passage he also writes that there is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and be glad.  This might seem to be a contradiction, but the writer also writes that we should not be too good nor too wicked.  The wording there seems to me to suggest being neither too concerned with doing what is right nor too willing to ignore the rules.  In light of that, I think he means that his teaching about mourning being better than pleasure means that we should keep everything in perspective.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.