Today is the second day of the month of September, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian, it is wonderful to be here with you today as we get ourselves moved into this

brand new month, and even as we're moving into this month we're ending a week, so it's

always transition isn't it?

And speaking of transitions, we concluded the book of Job yesterday, which means

we have to transition into some new territory, kind of sticking in the same kind of theme.

Today we'll move into the book of Ecclesiastes, and both Job and Ecclesiastes as well as

Proverbs and the Song of Solomon and some of the Psalms.

These are part of a grouping of books that are known as Wisdom Literature.

So this book that we're about to read, Ecclesiastes, traditionally has been kind of connected

with Solomon, and there's scholarly debate about this for lots of reasons, there's scholarly

debate about lots of things for lots of reasons.

But the book probably was originally with Solomon, and was translated and updated, and

that still happens today, as we translate and modernize the language as time goes forward.

But we know that Solomon was considered to be an incredibly wise man, in fact the wisest

man in the world, and we've read about his reign and how he kind of sat at the apex

of ancient Israel's civilization.

He was at the top, everything went downhill after Solomon, and Solomon went downhill before

the end of his life, but we read of Solomon, and he was a very powerful, very wealthy man

of his time.

He was very much in demand, audiences with him were being pursued from leaders throughout

the known world of the time, and he was able to do whatever his heart desired to pursue,

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