Ecclesiastes 4:1

New Century Version

Again I saw all the people who were mistreated here on earth. I saw their tears and that they had no one to comfort them. Cruel people had all the power, and there was no one to comfort those they hurt.

Cross References

Job 16:4

I also could speak as you do if you were in my place. I could make great speeches against you and shake my head at you.

Job 35:9

“People cry out when they are in trouble; they beg for relief from powerful people.

Job 6:29

Change your mind; do not be unfair; think again, because my innocence is being questioned.

Job 9:24

When the land falls into the hands of evil people, he covers the judges’ faces so they can’t see it. If it is not God who does this, then who is it?

Psalm 12:5

But the Lord says, “I will now rise up, because the poor are being hurt. Because of the moans of the helpless, I will give them the help they want.”

Psalm 142:4

Look around me and see. No one cares about me. I have no place of safety; no one cares if I live.

Psalm 142:5

Lord, I cry out to you. I say, “You are my protection. You are all I want in this life.”

Psalm 42:3

Day and night, my tears have been my food. People are always saying, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:9

I say to God, my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why am I sad and troubled by my enemies?”

Psalm 69:20

Insults have broken my heart and left me weak. I looked for sympathy, but there was none; I found no one to comfort me.

Psalm 69:21

They put poison in my food and gave me vinegar to drink.

Psalm 80:5

You have fed your people with tears; you have made them drink many tears.

Exodus 1:16

“When you are helping the Hebrew women give birth to their babies, watch! If the baby is a girl, let her live, but if it is a boy, kill him!”

Exodus 1:22

So the king commanded all his people, “Every time a boy is born to the Hebrews, you must throw him into the Nile River, but let all the girl babies live.”

Proverbs 19:7

Poor people’s relatives avoid them; even their friends stay far away. They run after them, begging, but they are gone.

Proverbs 28:3

Rulers who mistreat the poor are like a hard rain that destroys the crops.

Proverbs 29:2

When good people do well, everyone is happy, but when evil people rule, everyone groans.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I also saw this here on earth: Where there should have been justice, there was evil; where there should have been right, there was wrong.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

In some places you will see poor people mistreated. Don’t be surprised when they are not treated fairly or given their rights. One officer is cheated by a higher officer who in turn is cheated by even higher officers.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Even wise people are fools if they let money change their thinking.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

I saw all of this as I considered all that is done here on earth. Sometimes people harm those they control.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard belonging to the Lord All-Powerful is the nation of Israel; the garden that he loves is the people of Judah. He looked for justice, but there was only killing. He hoped for right living, but there were only cries of pain.

Isaiah 51:23

I will now give that cup of punishment to those who gave you pain, who told you, ‘Bow down so we can walk over you.’ They made your back like dirt for them to walk on; you were like a street for them to travel on.”

Isaiah 59:7

They eagerly run to do evil, and they are always ready to kill innocent people. They think evil thoughts. Everywhere they go they cause ruin and destruction.

Jeremiah 16:7

No one will bring food to comfort those who are crying for the dead. No one will offer a drink to comfort someone whose mother or father has died.

Lamentations 1:16

“I cry about these things; my eyes overflow with tears. There is no one near to comfort me, no one who can give me strength again. My children are left sad and lonely, because the enemy has won.”

Lamentations 1:17

Jerusalem reaches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The Lord commanded the people of Jacob to be surrounded by their enemies. Jerusalem is now unclean like those around her.

Lamentations 1:2

She cries loudly at night, and tears are on her cheeks. There is no one to comfort her; all who loved her are gone. All her friends have turned against her and are now her enemies.

Lamentations 1:9

She made herself dirty by her sins and did not think about what would happen to her. Her defeat was surprising, and no one could comfort her. She says, “Lord, see how I suffer, because the enemy has won.”

Amos 3:10

“The people don’t know how to do what is right,” says the Lord. “Their strong buildings are filled with treasures they took by force from others.”

Amos 3:9

Announce this to the strong buildings of Ashdod and to the strong buildings of Egypt: “Come to the mountains of Samaria, where you will see great confusion and people hurting others.”

Malachi 2:13

This is another thing you do. You cover the Lord’s altar with your tears. You cry and moan, because he does not accept your offerings and is not pleased with what you bring.

Malachi 3:18

You will again see the difference between good and evil people, between those who serve God and those who don’t.

Malachi 3:5

The Lord All-Powerful says, “Then I will come to you and judge you. I will be quick to testify against those who take part in evil magic, adultery, and lying under oath, those who cheat workers of their pay and who cheat widows and orphans, those who are unfair to foreigners, and those who do not respect me.

Matthew 26:56

But all these things have happened so that it will come about as the prophets wrote.” Then all of Jesus’ followers left him and ran away.

Deuteronomy 28:33

People you don’t know will eat the crops your land and hard work have produced. You will be mistreated and abused all your life.

Deuteronomy 28:48

so you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. You will be hungry, thirsty, naked, and poor, and the Lord will put a load on you until he has destroyed you.

James 5:4

The pay you did not give the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the workers have been heard by the Lord All-Powerful.

Judges 4:3

Because he had nine hundred iron chariots and was very cruel to the people of Israel for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help.