The question on the meaning of life was always object of research of a lot of sciences, among them Theological and Philosophical sciences. The religions have always presented and still present a meaning for the human life. Something alike happens with the Bible. The wise biblical literature, that we want to analyze in a more specific way is born of the desire of the Israeli people of understanding the laws that YHWH placed in the world for us to be followed; in other words, it is derived of the answer search for the question on the meaning of the life. The present dissertation wants to approach the book of Qohélet verifying which it is the meaning of life presented by the book. The choice of this book is due to its location in the context of the wisdom crisis in Israel; we refer to the crisis of the Biblical Wisdom that starts in the IV Century and ends in the II Century aproximately, where it is also placed the book of Jó. The foundation of the Israeli traditional wisdom was the cause and effect principle wich assured the happiness of the fairs and the heretics unhappiness. The crisis of the wisdom occurs exactly due the existence of faults in the cause and effect principle itself. On the other hand, it doesn t still exist in the Israeli tradition any reward perspective after death. Our research will have as starting point the text of Qoh 9,7-10 that will be analyzed following the steps of the historical- critical method. In a first moment we will try to reflect on the historical context of the book of Qohélet, on how it was regarded throughout the times and on some hypotheses regarding its composition process. Therefore, our research will seek to relate the afore mentioned text to the Qohélet book as a hole while trying to provide an answer to the following question: which is the meaning of the life for Qohélet? Subsequently we will try to compare that answer with the answer given by the Epic poem of Gilgames and by the materialistic philosophy.