Ecclesiastes 4:1 - Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THEN I returned and considered all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun: And I beheld the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they [too] had no comforter.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Common English Bible

¹ When I next observed all the oppressions that take place under the sun, I saw the tears of the oppressed—and they have no one to comfort them. Their oppressors wield power—but they have no one to comfort them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ I turned myself to other things, and I saw the false accusations which are carried out under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and that there was no one to console them; and that they were not able to withstand their violence, being destitute of all help.

English Standard Version 2016

¹ Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.

Ecclesiastes 4:1 Tagairtí Cros

Job 16:4

I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.

Job 35:9

By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

Job 6:29

Answer, I beseech you, without contention: and speaking that which is just, judge ye.

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the face of the judges thereof. And if it be not he, who is it then?

Psalm 12:5

lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me will rejoice when I am moved:

Psalm 142:4

and my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.

Psalm 142:5

I remembered the days of old, I meditated on all thy works: I meditated upon the works of thy hands.

Psalm 42:3

Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.

Psalm 80:5

For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.

Exodus 1:16

Commanding them: When you shall do the office of midwives to the Hebrew women, and the time of delivery is come: if it be a man child, kill it: if a woman, keep it alive.

Exodus 1:22

Pharao therefore charged all his people, saying: Whatsoever shall be born of the male sex, ye shall cast into the river: whatsoever of the female, ye shall save alive.

Proverbs 19:7

The brethren of the poor man hate him: moreover also his friends have departed far from him. He that followeth after words only, shall have nothing.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a violent shower, which bringeth a famine.

Proverbs 29:2

When just men increase, the people shall rejoice: when the wicked shall bear rule, the people shall mourn.

Ecclesiastes 3:16

I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All these things I have considered, and applied my heart to all the works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant. And I looked that he should do judgment, and, behold, iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.

Isaiah 51:23

And I will put it in the hand of them that have oppressed thee and have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over. And thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as a way to them that went over.

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts. Wasting and destruction are in their ways.

Jeremiah 16:7

And they shall not break bread among them to him that mourneth, to comfort him for the dead: neither shall they give them to drink of the cup, to comfort them for their father and mother.

Lamentations 1:16

Ain. Therefore do I weep and my eyes run down with water, because the comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me: my children are desolate because the enemy hath prevailed.

Lamentations 1:17

Phe. Sion hath spread forth her hands, there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded against Jacob, his enemies are round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

Lamentations 1:2

Beth. Weeping she hath wept in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. There is none to comfort her among all them that were dear to her: all her friends have despised her and are become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:9

Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet and she hath not remembered her end: she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter. Behold, O Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up.

Amos 3:10

And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.

Amos 3:9

Publish it in the houses of Azotus, and in the houses of the land of Egypt, and say: Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the many follies in the midst thereof, and them that suffer oppression in the inner rooms thereof.

Malachi 2:13

And this again have you done, you have covered the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and bellowing, so that I have no more a regard to sacrifice, neither do I accept any atonement at your hands.

Malachi 3:18

And you shall return, and shall see the difference between the just and the wicked: and between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages; the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Matthew 26:56

Now all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples all leaving him, fled.

Deuteronomy 28:33

May a people, which thou knowest not, eat the fruits of thy land, and all thy labours: and mayst thou always suffer oppression, and be crushed at all times.

Deuteronomy 28:48

Thou shalt serve thy enemy, whom the Lord will send upon thee, in hunger, and thirst, and nakedness, and in want of all things. And he shall put an iron yoke upon thy neck, till he consume thee.

James 5:4

Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

Judges 4:3

And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots set with scythes, and for twenty years had grievously oppressed them.