Have you seen the righteous condemned unjustly, the wicked prosper while the righteous struggle to survive, the good man struck down by a sudden illness in the prime of life, or the young bride snatched from her husband’s arms by a wreck though barely home from their honeymoon? Such tragedies are the story of human existence it seems. Life seems upside-down, broken, even meaningless sometimes. This is the core dilemma that Ecclesiastes wrestles with. And it is all expressed in a word that our English translations struggle to convey – the Hebrew word we sometimes write as Abel.…
