It is likely easy for us to see how poverty can be a trial, but did you know that wealth is also a trial for the believer? Both poverty and wealth present unique trials and unique temptations. An exposition of James 1:9-11.
Solomon lives under the cloud of death. Having failed to find any meaning in pleasure, Solomon realized he could not commend it to his son/successor. So he turns to wisdom to find that wisdom does provide an advantage in this life, but fails to deliver us from death....