Ecclesiastes 4:1

Modern King James Version

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold the tears of the oppressed ones, and they had no comforter! And on the side of those who oppressed them there was power, but they had no comforter.

Cross References

Job 16:4

I also could speak as you do; if your soul were in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

Job 35:9

From the host of tyrannies they cry out; they cry out because of the arm of the multitude.

Job 6:29

Turn back, please let there be no sin; yea, return again, my righteousness is in this matter.

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges; if it is not He, then who is it?

Psalm 12:5

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

Psalm 142:4

I looked on my right hand, and I watched, but no one recognized me; escape was lost to me; no man cared for my soul.

Psalm 142:5

I cried to You, O Jehovah; I said, You are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day, Where is your God?

Psalm 42:9

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

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to mourn with me, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 69:21

They also gave Me gall for my food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.

Psalm 80:5

You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

Exodus 1:16

And he said, When you midwife the Hebrew women, and look on the birth stools, if it is a son, then you shall kill him. But if it is a daughter, then she shall live.

Exodus 1:22

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

Proverbs 19:7

All the brothers of the poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him? He pursues them with words, yet they are lacking.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor man who crushes the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous increase, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people mourn.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And again I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a bribe destroys the heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen, and I gave my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!

Isaiah 51:23

But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, Bow down so that we may cross; and put your back as the ground, even as the street to those who cross.

Isaiah 59:7

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

Jeremiah 16:7

Nor shall anyone tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Nor shall anyone give them the cup of comfort to drink for their father or for their mother.

Lamentations 1:16

For these I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who could refresh my soul is far from me. My sons are desolated because the enemy prevails.

Lamentations 1:17

Zion spreads forth her hands; none is comforting to me; Jehovah has commanded concerning Jacob that his enemies should be all around him; Jerusalem has become as an impure thing among them.

Lamentations 1:2

She bitterly weeps in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers, she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt deceitfully with her; they became her enemies.

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness is in her skirts; she did not remember her end, and has gone down astoundingly. There is no comforter for her. O Jehovah, behold my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.

Amos 3:10

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

Amos 3:9

Make it heard at the palaces of Ashdod, and the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say: Gather yourselves on the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great uproars in its midst, and the oppressed in its midst.

Malachi 2:13

And this is a second thing you have done, covering the altar of Jehovah with tears, weeping, and groaning, yet not facing toward the food offering, and taking it with delight from your hand.

Malachi 3:18

Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God, and him who does not serve Him.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Matthew 26:56

But all this happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, forsaking Him.

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall be eaten up by a nation which you do not know. And you shall always be oppressed and crushed,

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore you shall serve your enemies which Jehovah shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Judges 4:3

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