Ecclesiastes 4:1

A Conservative Version

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.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou see the oppression of a poor man, and the violent wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter. For [a man] higher than the high is observing, and there are higher [men] than they.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression, for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

James 5:4

Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.

Matthew 26:56

But all this has come to pass, so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, having forsook him.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the FALSE swearers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the f

Lamentations 1:9

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She did not think of her latter end. Therefore she has come down astonishingly. She has no comforter. Behold, O LORD, my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her loved ones she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.

Isaiah 51:23

And I will put it into the hand of those who afflict thee, who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over, and thou have laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.

Psalm 42:9

I will say to God my rock, Why have thou forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?

Psalm 12:5

Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, now I will arise, says LORD. I will set him in the safety he gasps for.

Job 35:9

Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Malachi 3:18

Then ye shall return and discern between the righteous man and the wicked man, between him who serves God and him who does not serve him.

Malachi 2:13

And this again ye do: Ye cover the altar of LORD with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he does not regard the offering any more, nor receives it with good will at your hand.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe destroys the understanding.

Proverbs 28:3

A needy man who oppresses the poor is a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

Psalm 142:4

Look on [my] right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul.

Psalm 80:5

Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Job 16:4

I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

Job 6:29

Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice. Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

Judges 4:3

And the sons of Israel cried to LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore thou shall serve thine enemies that LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he has destroyed thee.

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of thy ground, and all thy labors, shall a nation eat up which thou know not. And thou shall only be oppressed and crushed always,

Exodus 1:22

And Pharaoh ordered all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

Exodus 1:16

And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him, but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

Proverbs 19:7

All the brothers of a poor man hate him, how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues [with] words, [but] they are gone.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. [There is] a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Jeremiah 16:7

nor shall men break [bread] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead, nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My sons are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not [he], who then is it?

Psalm 69:21

They also gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Psalm 142:5

I cried to thee, O LORD. I said, Thou are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice, but when a wicked man bears rule, the people sigh.

Lamentations 1:17

Zion spreads forth her hands. There is none to comfort her. LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are round about him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

Amos 3:9

Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold what great tumults are in it, and what oppressions are in the midst of it.

Amos 3:10

For they do not know to do right, says LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.