Ecclesiastes 4:1
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Note side: Heb. hand
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- I returned
- Job 6:29; Malachi 3:18
- and considered
- Ecclesiastes 3:16; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Ecclesiastes 7:7; Exodus 1:13, 14, 16, 22; Exodus 2:23, 24; Exodus 5:16–19; Deuteronomy 28:33, 48; Judges 4:3; Judges 10:7, 8; Nehemiah 5:1–5; Job 24:7–12; Psalm 10:9, 10; Proverbs 28:3, 15, 16; Isaiah 5:7; Isaiah 51:23; Isaiah 59:7, 13–15; Malachi 3:5
- the tears
- Psalm 42:3, 9; Psalm 80:5; Psalm 102:8, 9; Malachi 2:13; James 5:4
- they had
- Job 16:4; Job 19:21, 22; Psalm 69:20; Psalm 142:4; Proverbs 19:7; Lamentations 1:2, 9; Matthew 26:56; 2 Timothy 4:16, 17