The Book of Ecclesiastes

Title (1:1)

a. poem about the brevity and insignificance of life (1:2-11).

      b. wisdom's failure to discover life's meaning (1:12-2:26)

            c. poem about time (3:1-15)

                d. the world's moral problems (3:16-4:16)

                      e. CENTER: Fear God! (5:1-7)

                d'. the world's moral problems (5:8-6:12)

           c'. poem about time revisited (7:1-14)

      b'. wisdom's failure revisited (7:15-11:6)

a'. poem about life's brevity revisited (11:7-12:8)

Conclusion (12:9-14)