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What difference is there between these words and those of Ecclesiastes?

It is because of the conclusion arrived at in 6:10, that Koheleth could view the crooked things, and the

oppressions, without being `astonished at the purpose'.

`Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty:

Neither do I exercise myself in great matters,

Or in things too high for me.

Surely I have behaved and quieted (silenced) myself,

As a child that is weaned of his mother:

My soul is even as a weaned child.

Let Israel hope in the LORD

From henceforth and for ever' (Psa. 131).

As we turn to the second portion of the book, the question with which the first portion ends (6:12) will be ringing

in our ears and find an echo in our hearts.

`Who knoweth WHAT IS GOOD for man IN THIS LIFE, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow?'

`WHO KNOWETH?'