Ecclesiastes 4:1

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Cross References

Job 16:4

I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.

Job 35:9

Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants.

Job 6:29

Respond, I beg you, without contention, and, speaking what is just, pass judgment.

Job 9:24

Since the earth has been given into the hand of the impious, he covers the face of its judges; for if it is not him, then who is it?

Psalm 12:5

lest at any time my enemy may say, "I have prevailed against him." Those who trouble me will exult, if I have been disturbed.

Psalm 142:4

And my spirit has been in anguish over me. My heart within me has been disturbed.

Psalm 142:5

I have called to mind the days of antiquity. I have been meditating on all your works. I have meditated on the workings of your hands.

Psalm 42:3

Send forth your light and your truth. They have guided me and led me, to your holy mountain and into your tabernacles.

Psalm 80:5

for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.

Exodus 1:16

instructing them: "When you will act as a midwife to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery has arrived: if it is male, put it to death; if it is female, retain it."

Exodus 1:22

Therefore, Pharaoh instructed all his people, saying: "Whatever will be born of the male sex, cast it into the river; whatever will be born of the female sex, retain it."

Proverbs 19:7

The brothers of the poor man hate him. Moreover, even his friends have withdrawn far from him. Whoever pursues only words shall have nothing.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor man slandering the poor is like a violent rainstorm in advance of a famine.

Proverbs 29:2

When just men are multiplied, the common people shall rejoice. When the impious take up the leadership, the people shall mourn.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I saw under the sun: instead of judgment, impiety, and instead of justice, iniquity.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

But finally, there is the King who rules over the entire earth, which is subject to him.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

For, like the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of the foolish. But this, too, is emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

I have considered all these things, and I have applied my heart to all the works which are being done under the sun. Sometimes one man rules over another to his own harm.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel. And the man of Judah is his delightful seedling. And I expected that he would do judgment, and behold iniquity, and that he would do justice, and behold an outcry.

Isaiah 51:23

And I will set it in the hand of those who have humiliated you, and who have said to your soul: "Bow down, so that we pass over." And you placed your body on the ground, as a path for them to pass over.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are useless thoughts; devastation and destruction are in their ways.

Jeremiah 16:7

And they will not break bread among themselves for the sake of him who mourns, so as to console him over the dead. And they will not give them a chalice to drink, so as to console them over their father and mother.

Lamentations 1:16

AIN. For this I weep, and my eyes bring forth water. For the consoler has been far away from me, changing my soul. My sons have become lost, because the enemy has prevailed.

Lamentations 1:17

PHE. Zion has reached out her hands; there is no one to console her. The Lord has given orders against Jacob; his enemies are all around him. Jerusalem among them is like a woman made unclean by menstruation.

Lamentations 1:2

BETH. Weeping, she has wept through the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. There is no one to be a comfort to her and to all her beloved. All her friends have spurned her, and they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:9

TETH. Her filth is on her feet, and her end has not been remembered. She has been vehemently put down, having no consolation. O Lord, look upon my affliction, for the adversary has been lifted up.

Amos 3:10

And they do not know how to make it right, says the Lord, storing up iniquity and plunder in their buildings.

Amos 3:9

Let it be heard in the buildings of Ashdod and in the buildings of the land of Egypt, and say: Gather together across the mountains of Samaria, and see the many absurdities in its midst, and those who are suffering false accusations in its inner most places.

Malachi 2:13

And you have done this repeatedly: you have covered the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and bellowing, to such an extent that I no longer have respect towards the sacrifice, nor do I accept any appeasement that is from your hands.

Malachi 3:18

And you shall be converted, and you will see the difference between the just and the impious, and between those who serve God and those who do not serve him.

Malachi 3:5

And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 26:56

But all this has happened so that the Scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled." Then all the disciples fled, abandoning him.

Deuteronomy 28:33

May a people you do not know eat the fruits of your land and of all your labors. And may you continually suffer from slander and oppression every day.

Deuteronomy 28:48

You will serve your enemy, whom the Lord will send to you, in hunger and thirst and nakedness, and in destitution of all things. And he will place an iron yoke upon your neck, until he has crushed you.

James 5:4

Consider the pay of the workers who reaped your fields: it has been misappropriated by you; it cries out. And their cry has entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Judges 4:3

And the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord. For he had nine hundred chariots with scythes, and he vehemently oppressed them for twenty years.