This is the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon.

I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today I'm joined by Josh Bosse to watch Kohelet cast her gaze on injustice and oppression.

Indeed.

Here we are, Chapter 4 of Ecclesiastes.

Just to remind all of us, we'll do, let's just right off the back, go into our opening

warning and, you know, all that jazz.

Kohelet is a radical philosopher in her time.

I like your jazz comment, actually, because it does kind of feel like jazz.

It's a little bit all over the place.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Like, are you improvving right now?

What's going on here?

I am improvving.

I'm trying to keep it loose.

I'm trying not to create my own little eye effect here.

Got to keep it fresh and lively. But just to remind all of us, you know, Kohelet is not here to give us simple answers,

abstract, overarching principles.

That is not her game.

She is very concrete, very human in the lens that she is applying to the world, human in the sense that while she,

of course, acknowledges the existence of God, and even more so, like in the last chapter,

really started to bring in a sense of like the kind of relationship with God, even, but not in the way we usually see in the text. There's not

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