Chapter 6

2121 - No new section title here, apparently more of a continuation.  I see that I have one line of notes only on this chapter.  Likely because 4, 5 have always bogged me down.  Previously, I read 1-6 the same day, so no wonder.

Solomon sees an evil in that some who have wealth have no capacity to enjoy it.  He thinks it  better never to have been born than to have the best of everything and not be able to enjoy it.  The idea is that peace, joy, happiness don't come from what we have, but from inside.

2021 - A third "grievous evil" in the goings and comings of mankind.  Not being able to enjoy what you have.  You cannot disconnect.  You cannot let go and just sip the champagne.  "Yeah, he's rich, but he ain't happy" is a way to look at it.  Peterson talks about how the ultra-hyer-rich have no lives no relationships.  They can't stop and enjoy it.  They are jealous of every second that could be used to make still more instead of stopping and enjoying a few of those seconds.

(((11/15/21 - Reading Proverbs 15 since it is the 15th, and there, Solomon says this:

[Pro 15:15 ESV] All the days of the afflicted are evil, but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast.

[Pro 15:16 ESV] Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it.

[Pro 15:17 ESV] Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Surely these fit with these chapters!)))