Everything we have in life, we only truly understand it in hindsight. Before obtain it and it leaves us, we don’t really understand its complete significance. In fact, many never even understand this. Things come and go from them and they have no idea as to the ripple effect they can cause. Only the wise see things for what they are completely, and even that is a limited form of completion. They are bound to the limits of their own perception and intellect. Solomon elucidates a point about understanding. It is good to have it. It is foolish to think that you do. The effort spent to exhaust one’s intellect is a foolish pursuit. This is because it is a prideful one. It presupposes that we can be like God. It repeats the original sin, that we can be like God. But we cannot. We cannot know everything. This is a reserved level of intellect and understanding. It is simply beyond us. Therefore its pursuit is empty. Instead we should be good stewards of what we have, but we shouldn’t be entitled to more.