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L'absurde est essentiellement un divorce. II n'est ni dans 1'un ni dans 1'autre des elements compares. II nait de leur confrontation (Mythe, p. 48). Absurdity arises from a logical contradiction between two undeniable realities: "'C'est absurde' veut dire: 'C'est impossible', mais aussi: 'c'est contradictoire'" (Mythe, p. 47). Life is filled with specific 3. "Futile" is properly predicated of an intentional action and refers to its failure to achieve its goal. "Absurd" can be applied at a higher level of abstraction.
And hebel never means literal nothingness. Qohelet is probably warning us not to expect greater meaning or rationality after death than we face before it. In 3:19-20 Qohelet implies that if different beings had a different fate in death, death might be other than absurd. But he brushes this possibility aside, and death retains its absurdity for him. (4a) Divine justice (8:10, 14 [twice]) Some of the passages discussed in other categories (especially 2:15, 26; 6:1-2; 9:1-2) could go here as well, for they speak of inequities whose source is in God's rule.
1. The Meaning of Hebel and R^ut-Ruah in Qphelet 51 —an inequity: a poor youth rising by wisdom only to pass his power and popularity on to another (4:16). Re'ut ruah is not predicated of an activity—there is none in the immediate context—but of a situation, one of whose components is a pursuit. , "the events that occur under the sun" (2:17). Again, events comprise more than activities. , were "bad upon" him) and made him "disgusted with life". While r^'ut ruah may be translated "pursuit of the wind", this metaphor should be understood as indicating the psychological state of the pursuer, in other words, his vexation.