One’s subsistence on earth, according to Qoheleth, is perforated with conundrums, the pieces and puzzles can be assembled only by the creator. Life has no formula; to deploy wisdom and cleverness or any other thing or means to master the world is ineffective. God is sovereign over time in the sense that he foreordains a time for everything. The world system is closed and has fixed, immutable order that man is unable to alter. Order and regularity in time are God’s blessing and the failure of man to fathom the system because of the eternity in his heart is designed by God to evoke in man a situation of fear of God. God is not to be limited and coerced by human wisdom. The only wise way to live is to be in awe of the incomprehensible God who lives behind the appearances of things known and unknown, comprehensible and incomprehensible. To exploit Qoheleth’s guide points to cope with life in times of unavoidable and inexorable situations in the world of ours, replete with complexity and mystery, is a mark of religious maturity.