Ecclesiastes 4:1

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

I turned me to other things, and I saw false challenges, that be done under the sun, and the tears of the guiltless, and no man a comforter; and that they destitute, either forsaken, of the help of all men, may not against-stand the violence of them.

Cross References

Job 16:4

Also I might speak things like to you, and I would, that your soul were for my soul; and I would comfort you by words, and I would move mine head on you;

Job 35:9

Men shall cry for the multitude of false challengers, and they shall wail for the violence of the power of tyrants.

Job 6:29

I beseech you, answer ye me with-out strife, and speak ye, and deem ye that, that is just [or rightwise].

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; he covereth the faces of judges; that if he is not, who there-fore is?

Psalm 12:5

For the wretchedness of needy men, and for the wailing of poor men; now I shall rise up, saith the Lord. I shall set him in health; I shall do trustily in him.

Psalm 142:4

I beheld to the right side, and I saw; and none there was that knew me. Flight perished from me; and none there is that seeketh to help my soul.

Psalm 142:5

Lord, I cried to thee; I said, Thou art mine hope; my part in the land of livers.

Psalm 42:3

My tears were loaves to me day and night; while it is said to me each day, Where is thy God?

Psalm 42:9

I shall say to God, Thou art mine up-taker. Why forgettest thou me; and why go I sorrowful, while the enemy tormenteth me?

Psalm 69:20

mine heart abode in shame, and wretchedness. And I abode him, that was sorry together with me, and none was; and that should comfort me, and I found not.

Psalm 69:21

And they gave gall into my meat; and in my thirst they gave to me drink with vinegar.

Psalm 80:5

How long shalt thou feed us with the bread of tears; and shalt give drink to us with tears in great measure?

Exodus 1:16

and he commanded to them, When ye shall do the office of midwives to [the] Hebrew women, and the time of child-bearing shall come, if it is a knave child, slay ye him; if it is a woman child, keep ye it.

Exodus 1:22

Therefore Pharaoh commanded all his people, and said, Whatever thing of male kind is born to Hebrews, cast ye into the flood; whatever thing of women kind, keep ye.

Proverbs 19:7

The brethren of a poor man hate him; furthermore and the friends went away far from him. He that pursueth [or followeth] words only, shall have nothing;

Proverbs 28:3

A poor man falsely challenging poor men, is like a great rain, wherein hunger is made ready.

Proverbs 29:2

The commonality shall be glad in the multiplying of just [or rightwise] men; when wicked men have taken princehood, the people shall wail.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I saw under [the] sun unfaithfulness in the place of doom; and wickedness in the place of rightfulness.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest false challenges of needy men, and violent dooms, and that rightfulness is destroyed in the province, wonder thou not on this doing; for another is higher than an high man, and also other men be more high above these men;

Ecclesiastes 7:7

False challenge troubleth a wise man, and it shall lose the strength of his heart.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

I beheld all these things, and I gave mine heart in all works, that be done under the sun. Sometime a man is lord of a man, to his evil.

Isaiah 5:7

Forsooth the vinery [or vineyard] of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah be the delightable burgeoning of him. I abode, that it shall make doom, and lo! wickedness; and that it should do rightfulness [or rightwiseness], and lo! cry.

Isaiah 51:23

And I shall set it in the hand of them that made thee low, and said to thy soul, Be thou bowed, that we pass; and thou hast set thy body as earth, and as a way to them that go forth.

Isaiah 59:7

The feet of them run to evil, and haste to shed out innocent blood; the thoughts of them be unprofitable thoughts; destroying and defouling be in the ways of them.

Jeremiah 16:7

And they shall not break bread among them to him that mourneth, to comfort on a dead man, and they shall not give to them drink of a cup, to comfort on their father and mother.

Lamentations 1:16

Therefore I am weeping, and mine eye is leading down water; for a comforter, converting my soul, is made far from me; my sons be made lost, for the enemy had the mastery.

Lamentations 1:17

Zion spreaded abroad his hands, none is that comforteth it; the Lord sent against Jacob enemies thereof, in the compass thereof; Jerusalem is made as defouled with unclean blood among them.

Lamentations 1:2

It weeping wept in the night, and the tears thereof be in the cheeks thereof; there is none of all the dear-worthy thereof, that comforteth it; all the friends thereof forsook it, and be made enemies to it.

Lamentations 1:9

The filths thereof be in the feet thereof, and it had no mind of her end; it was put down greatly, and had no comforter; Lord, see thou my torment, for the enemy is raised [up].

Amos 3:10

And they could not or knew not how to do rightful [or right] thing, saith the Lord, and they treasured wickedness and raven in their houses.

Amos 3:9

Make ye heard in the houses of Ashdod, and in the houses of the land of Egypt; and say ye, Be ye gathered together on the hills of Samaria, and see ye many strong vengeances in the midst thereof, and them that suffer false challenge in the privy places thereof.

Malachi 2:13

And again ye did this thing; ye covered with tears the altar of the Lord, with weeping, and wailing; so that I behold no more to sacrifice, neither receive anything pleasant of your hand.

Malachi 3:18

And ye shall be turned again, and ye shall see, what is betwixt the just man and the unpious, betwixt the serving to the Lord, and not serving to him.

Malachi 3:5

And I shall come to you in doom, and I shall be a swift witness to mis-doers, either enchanters of devil’s craft, and to adulterers, and to forsworn men, and that falsely challenge the hire of an hired man, and widows, and fatherless children, and oppress a pilgrim, and dreaded not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 26:56

But all this thing was done, that the scriptures of prophets should be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, and left him.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A people whom thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy travails; and ever[more] be thou suffering false challenges, and be thou oppressed in all days, or all time,

Deuteronomy 28:48

Thou shalt serve thine enemy, whom God shall send to thee, in hunger, and thirst, and in nakedness, and in poverty of all things; and he shall put an iron yoke on thy noll, till he all-break thee.

James 5:4

Lo! the hire of your workmen, that reaped your fields, which is defrauded of you, crieth; and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

Judges 4:3

And the sons of Israel cried to the Lord; for Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, full of weapons, sharp as scythes, and twenty years he oppressed Israel greatly.