"What has been is remote and exceedingly mysterious. Who can discover it?"

Not only is man incapable of penetrating many of the secrets of the distant past (look how far off track some scientists are in reference to how the universe really began!), but man, even with the best human wisdom available can't even penetrate why bad things happened today. The reality below all changing phenomena is beyond the reach of man (Ecclesiastes 7:14). Of course the answer to the above question is that God knows. Solomon just wasn't interested in the what of existence, he desired to know the why.

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Old Testament