Ecclesiastes 4:1

New English Translation

So I again considered all the oppression that continually occurs on earth. This is what I saw: The oppressed were in tears, but no one was comforting them; no one delivers them from the power of their oppressors.

Cross References

Job 16:4

I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.

Job 35:9

“People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.

Job 6:29

Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!

Job 9:24

If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

Psalm 12:5

“Because of the violence done to the oppressed, because of the painful cries of the needy, I will spring into action,” says the Lord. “I will provide the safety they so desperately desire.”

Psalm 142:4

Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.

Psalm 142:5

I cry out to you, O Lord; I say, “You are my shelter, my security in the land of the living.”

Psalm 42:3

I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:9

I will pray to God, my high ridge: “Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”

Psalm 69:20

Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.

Psalm 69:21

They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

Psalm 80:5

You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.

Exodus 1:16

“When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live.”

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “All sons that are born you must throw into the river, but all daughters you may let live.”

Proverbs 19:7

All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him – he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous become numerous, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I saw something else on earth: In the place of justice, there was wickedness, and in the place of fairness, there was wickedness.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see the extortion of the poor, or the perversion of justice and fairness in the government, do not be astonished by the matter. For the high official is watched by a higher official, and there are higher ones over them!

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely oppression can turn a wise person into a fool; likewise, a bribe corrupts the heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

While applying my mind to everything that happens in this world, I have seen all this: Sometimes one person dominates other people to their harm.

Isaiah 5:7

Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the Lord who commands armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got – disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got – cries for help!

Isaiah 51:23

I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you, ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you.’ You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you.”

Isaiah 59:7

They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

Jeremiah 16:7

No one will take any food to those who mourn for the dead to comfort them. No one will give them any wine to drink to console them for the loss of their father or mother.

Lamentations 1:16

I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed. פ (Pe)

Lamentations 1:17

Zion spread out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The Lord has issued a decree against Jacob; his neighbors have become his enemies. Jerusalem has become like filthy garbage in their midst. צ (Tsade)

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly at night; tears stream down her cheeks. She has no one to comfort her among all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies. ג (Gimel)

Lamentations 1:9

Her menstrual flow has soiled her clothing; she did not consider the consequences of her sin. Her demise was astonishing, and there was no one to comfort her. She cried, “Look, O Lord, on my affliction because my enemy boasts!” י (Yod)

Amos 3:10

“They do not know how to do what is right.” (The Lord is speaking.) “They store up the spoils of destructive violence in their fortresses.

Amos 3:9

Make this announcement in the fortresses of Ashdod and in the fortresses in the land of Egypt. Say this: “Gather on the hills around Samaria! Observe the many acts of violence taking place within the city, the oppressive deeds occurring in it.”

Malachi 2:13

You also do this: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears as you weep and groan, because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you.

Malachi 3:18

Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

Malachi 3:5

“I will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises, and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans, who refuse to help the immigrant and in this way show they do not fear me,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Matthew 26:56

But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

Deuteronomy 28:33

As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

Deuteronomy 28:48

instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.

James 5:4

Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Judges 4:3

The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, and he cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.