Ecclesiastes 4:1

Good News Translation

Then I looked again at all the injustice that goes on in this world. The oppressed were crying, and no one would help them. No one would help them, because their oppressors had power on their side.

Cross References

Job 16:4

If you were in my place and I in yours, I could say everything you are saying. I could shake my head wisely and drown you with a flood of words.

Job 35:9

When people are oppressed, they groan; they cry for someone to save them.

Job 6:29

You have gone far enough. Stop being unjust. Don't condemn me. I'm in the right.

Job 9:24

God gave the world to the wicked. He made all the judges blind. And if God didn't do it, who did?

Psalm 12:5

“But now I will come,” says the Lord, “because the needy are oppressed and the persecuted groan in pain. I will give them the security they long for.”

Psalm 142:4

When I look beside me, I see that there is no one to help me, no one to protect me. No one cares for me.

Psalm 142:5

Lord, I cry to you for help; you, Lord, are my protector; you are all I want in this life.

Psalm 42:3

Day and night I cry, and tears are my only food; all the time my enemies ask me, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:9

To God, my defender, I say, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go on suffering from the cruelty of my enemies?”

Psalm 69:20

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I had hoped for sympathy, but there was none; for comfort, but I found none.

Psalm 69:21

When I was hungry, they gave me poison; when I was thirsty, they offered me vinegar.

Psalm 80:5

You have given us sorrow to eat, a large cup of tears to drink.

Exodus 1:16

“When you help the Hebrew women give birth,” he said to them, “kill the baby if it is a boy; but if it is a girl, let it live.”

Exodus 1:22

Finally the king issued a command to all his people: “Take every newborn Hebrew boy and throw him into the Nile, but let all the girls live.”

Proverbs 19:7

Even the relatives of a poor person have no use for him; no wonder he has no friends. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot win any.

Proverbs 28:3

Someone in authority who oppresses poor people is like a driving rain that destroys the crops.

Proverbs 29:2

Show me a righteous ruler and I will show you a happy people. Show me a wicked ruler and I will show you a miserable people.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

In addition, I have also noticed that in this world you find wickedness where justice and right ought to be.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Don't be surprised when you see that the government oppresses the poor and denies them justice and their rights. Every official is protected by someone higher, and both are protected by still higher officials.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

You may be wise, but if you cheat someone, you are acting like a fool. If you take a bribe, you ruin your character.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

I saw all this when I thought about the things that are done in this world, a world where some people have power and others have to suffer under them.

Isaiah 5:7

Israel is the vineyard of the Lord Almighty; the people of Judah are the vines he planted. He expected them to do what was good, but instead they committed murder. He expected them to do what was right, but their victims cried out for justice.

Isaiah 51:23

I will give it to those who oppressed you, to those who made you lie down in the streets and trampled on you as if you were dirt.”

Isaiah 59:7

You are always planning something evil, and you can hardly wait to do it. You never hesitate to murder innocent people. You leave ruin and destruction wherever you go,

Jeremiah 16:7

No one will eat or drink with anyone to offer comfort when a loved one dies. No one will show sympathy, not even for someone who has lost a father or mother.

Lamentations 1:16

“That is why my eyes are overflowing with tears. No one can comfort me; no one can give me courage. The enemy has conquered me; my people have nothing left.

Lamentations 1:17

“I stretch out my hands, but no one will help me. The Lord has called enemies against me from every side; They treat me like some filthy thing.

Lamentations 1:2

All night long she cries; tears run down her cheeks. Of all her former friends, not one is left to comfort her. Her allies have betrayed her and are all against her now.

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness was easily seen, but she showed no concern for her fate. Her downfall was terrible; no one can comfort her. Her enemies have won, and she cries to the Lord for mercy.

Amos 3:10

The Lord says, “These people fill their mansions with things taken by crime and violence. They don't even know how to be honest.

Amos 3:9

Announce to those who live in the palaces of Egypt and Ashdod: “Gather together in the hills around Samaria and see the great disorder and the crimes being committed there.”

Malachi 2:13

This is another thing you do. You drown the Lord's altar with tears, weeping and wailing because he no longer accepts the offerings you bring him.

Malachi 3:18

Once again my people will see the difference between what happens to the righteous and to the wicked, to the person who serves me and the one who does not.”

Malachi 3:5

The Lord Almighty says, “I will appear among you to judge, and I will testify at once against those who practice magic, against adulterers, against those who give false testimony, those who cheat employees out of their wages, and those who take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners—against all who do not respect me.

Matthew 26:56

But all this has happened in order to make come true what the prophets wrote in the Scriptures.” Then all the disciples left him and ran away.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow, while you receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.

Deuteronomy 28:48

So then, you will serve the enemies that the Lord is going to send against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, and naked—in need of everything. The Lord will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed.

James 5:4

You have not paid any wages to those who work in your fields. Listen to their complaints! The cries of those who gather in your crops have reached the ears of God, the Lord Almighty.

Judges 4:3

Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he ruled the people of Israel with cruelty and violence for twenty years. Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help.