Suffering in Ecclesiastes and Job

The other day, one of my co-workers who is doing the Ecclesiastes study with me mentoned that the book reminded her of Job. Sure enough, they are both about suffering, but if you look at them they are about different kinds of suffering. Job is about physical suffering, anguish, and torment in the face of loss. Ecclesiastes is about depression, frustraion, and mental anguish in the face of wealth and comfort. The contrast brings out a couple of points.

• Though we often try to dismiss it, psychological torment is just as real as physical suffering.
• You can be in pain whether you are rich or poor.

My bible has a couple of cross-references from Ecclesiastes 1 into the New Testament. One of which seems to really answer the problem of Job and Ecclesiastes:

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of
childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. (Romans 8:16-23; ESV)

You can't stick a pin into Romans without hitting something really profound, so it's hard to trim this down to just a short passage. All of Romans and especially Romans 8 seem to really speak to this question.