Book of Ecclesiastes Summary: Finding God in the Fog. “Everything is meaningless,” says the Teacher. But if that’s all you hear, you missed the entire point. The Book of Ecclesiastes is a literary paradox, a philosophical bombshell, and a theological mirror held up to humanity. It contains some of the most misquoted, misunderstood, and misused verses in the entire Bible—often cherry-picked to support nihilism, fatalism, prosperity gospel, or pleasure-seeking hedonism.