This first verse gives us the first clue as to who wrote this book. We will get more information as we go, but the writer appears to be Solomon. This book is written in similar form as the book of Proverbs. I’ve often said that this is one of my favorite books in the bible. The reason is it shows very clearly throughout that without God everything that you do is done in vain. Your labor, your relationships, your money and even the things that we enjoy doing leaves us empty and continually searching for something more. We hear the term the circle of life. Solomon shows us what that looks like, and as he wrote this book as he put these things to the test. He was the wisest man of his time and some believe that he wrote this in his later years when his heart was turned from God because of all the wives and concubines he had acquired. As we go through this study, let’s keep that in mind.