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That is, according to God’s inscrutable plan. Like the sun, the wind is indifferent to us and our little struggles. The plan for the wind is not known to us and has nothing to do with our hopes for happiness. It has a purpose, a function in the natural order of things, but it is not to our purposes.

The reason this thought is oppressive to Solomon is it shows him his nothingness. The winds do not change when Solomon is unhappy; they do not adjust themselves to give him good cheer. The more he understands about the winds, the more his sense of nothingness and dislocation increases.

The wisdom he has obtained about the winds only increases his sorrow. And in fact the sorrows of wisdom will become an important theme as we go along—which is all the more amazing when we consider that Solomon sought identity in wisdom.