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A review by notwithoutwitness
The Message of Ecclesiastes by Derek Kidner
2.0
I found Kidner's introduction: "What is this Book doing in the Bible - a reconnaissance" helpful, but the rest of the commentary was so short, I did not find it as helpful.
"He [author of Ecclesiastes] is demolishing to build. The searching questions he has asked are those that life puts to us, if we will only listen. He can afford to ask them, because in the final chapters has has good news for us, once we can stop pretending that what is mortal is enough for us, who have been given a capacity for the eternal." (p. 19)
"We face the appalling inference that nothing has meaning, nothing matters under the sun. It is then that we can hear, as the good news which it is, that everything matters - for God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil." (p. 20)
"He [author of Ecclesiastes] is demolishing to build. The searching questions he has asked are those that life puts to us, if we will only listen. He can afford to ask them, because in the final chapters has has good news for us, once we can stop pretending that what is mortal is enough for us, who have been given a capacity for the eternal." (p. 19)
"We face the appalling inference that nothing has meaning, nothing matters under the sun. It is then that we can hear, as the good news which it is, that everything matters - for God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil." (p. 20)