Ecclesiastes 3:16

New American Bible - revised edition

And still under the sun in the judgment place I saw wickedness, and wickedness also in the seat of justice.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that take place under the sun: the tears of the victims with none to comfort them! From the hand of their oppressors comes violence, and there is none to comfort them!

Ecclesiastes 5:7

If you see oppression of the poor, and violation of rights and justice in the realm, do not be astonished by the fact, for the high official has another higher than he watching him and above these are others higher still—.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

But profitable for a land in such circumstances is a king concerned about cultivation.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All these things I saw and I applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun, while one person tyrannizes over another for harm. The Problem of Retribution.

Isaiah 59:14

Judgment is turned away, and justice stands far off; For truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter.

Micah 2:2

You covet fields, and seize them; houses, and take them; You cheat owners of their houses, people of their inheritance.

Micah 7:3

Their hands succeed at evil; the prince makes demands, The judge is bought for a price, the powerful speak as they please.

Zephaniah 3:3

Its officials within it are roaring lions; Its judges are desert wolves that have no bones to gnaw by morning.

Matthew 26:59

The chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death,

Acts 23:3

Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall. Do you indeed sit in judgment upon me according to the law and yet in violation of the law order me to be struck?”

James 2:6

But you dishonored the poor person. Are not the rich oppressing you? And do they themselves not haul you off to court?