Robert fled from Normandy and after aimless wanderings obtained from King Philip the castle of Gerberoi, in the Beauvaisis, from which he harassed the Norman marches.
And without knowing how this aimless lie had escaped him, he went along with resolute and triumphant steps between the French soldiers.
Such is Koheleth's view of life, and it is obvious that such a conception of an aimless cosmos is thoroughly non-Jewish, if we may judge Jewish thought by the great body of the extant literature.
Proverbs 29:1 Malachi's question is not aimless or theoretical.