Ecclesiastes 4:1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THEN I returned and considered all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun: And I beheld the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they [too] had no comforter.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ 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.

Common English Bible

¹ When I next observed all the oppressions that take place under the sun, I saw the tears of the oppressed—and they have no one to comfort them. Their oppressors wield power—but they have no one to comfort them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ I turned myself to other things, and I saw the false accusations which are carried out under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and that there was no one to console them; and that they were not able to withstand their violence, being destitute of all help.

Ecclesiastes 4:1 Cross References

Job 16:4

He hath gathered together his fury against me, and threatening me he hath gnashed with his teeth upon me: my enemy hath beheld me with terrible eyes.

Job 35:9

5 For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.

Job 6:29

If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall arise? and again I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness.

Job 9:24

9 But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?

Psalm 12:5

Consider, and hear me, O Lord my God. Enlighten my eyes that I never sleep in death:

Psalm 142:4

and my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.

Psalm 142:5

I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands.

Psalm 42:3

0 Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies who trouble me have reproached me; Whilst they say to me day be day : Where is thy God?

Psalm 42:9

why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him : the salvation of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 69:20

7 Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.

Psalm 69:21

8 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.

Psalm 80:5

2 Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?

Exodus 1:16

8 And the king called for them and said: What is that you meant to do, that you would save the men children ?

Exodus 1:22

And she conceived, and bore a son; and seeing him a goodly child hid him three months.

Proverbs 19:7

4 House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.

Proverbs 28:3

0 He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way, shall fall in his own destruction: and the upright shall possess his goods.

Proverbs 29:2

If a wise man contend with a fool, whether he be angry or laugh, he shall find no rest.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

5 As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

4 In the good day enjoy good things, and beware beforehand of the evil day: for God hath made both the one and the other, that man may not find against him any just complaint.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

6 And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to understand the distraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and night take no sleep with their eyes.

Isaiah 5:7

5 And man shall be brought down, and man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be brought low.

Isaiah 51:23

The voice of thy watchmen: they have lifted up their voice, they shah praise together: for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall convert Sion

Isaiah 59:7

5 And truth hath been forgotten: and he that departed from evil, lay open to be a prey: and the Lord saw, and it appeared evil in his eyes, because there is no judgment.

Jeremiah 16:7

5 But, the Lord liveth, that brought the children of Israel out of the land of the north, and out of all the lands to which I cast them out: and I will bring them again into their land, which I gave to their fathers.

Lamentations 1:16

Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong, and hath not spared, all that was beautiful in Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the strong holds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them down to the ground: he hath made the kingdom unclean, and the princes thereof.

Lamentations 1:17

Ghimel. He hath broken in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: and he hath kindled in Jacob as it were a flaming fire devouring round about.

Lamentations 1:2

0 Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand to all her desirable things: for she hath seen the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, of whom thou gavest commandment that they should not enter into thy church.

Lamentations 1:9

7 Phe. Sion hath spread forth her hands, there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded against Jacob, his enemies are round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

Amos 3:10

And you shall go out at the breaches one over against the other, and you shall be cast forth into Armon, saith the Lord.

Amos 3:9

The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, when they shall lift you up on pikes, and what shall remain of you in boiling pots.

Malachi 2:13

And the sacrifice of Juda and of Jerusalem shall please the Lord, as in the days of old, and in the ancient years.

Malachi 3:18

Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac begot Jacob. And Jacob begot Judas and his brethren.

Malachi 3:5

3 Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.

Matthew 26:56

4 Jesus saith to him: Thou hast said it. Nevertheless I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power of God, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

Deuteronomy 28:33

8 Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.

Deuteronomy 28:48

3 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in the distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee.

James 5:4

3 Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.

Judges 4:3

And Barac said to her: If thou wilt come with me, I will go: if thou wilt not come with me, I will not go.