UNDER THE SUN — twenty-nine times in Ecclesiastes and nowhere else in the Bible. It is a frame and a limit at once: everything Qohelet reports, he reports about the world AS OBSERVED FROM INSIDE IT. Whatever may be true above the sun is, by his own declared terms, outside the scope of the investigation — which is a large part of why the book can sound faithless and still belong to faith's canon. → first discussed at Ecclesiastes 1:3