Ecclesiastes 4:1
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.
KJV
Verti me ad alia, et vidi calumnias quæ sub sole geruntur, et lacrimas innocentium, et neminem consolatorem, nec posse resistere eorum violentiæ, cunctorum auxilio destitutos,
Vulgate
Καὶ ἐπέστρεψα ἐγὼ καὶ εἶδον συμπάσας τὰς συκοφαντίας τὰς γινομένας ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον· ἰδοὺ δάκρυον τῶν συκοφαντουμένων, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῖς παρακαλῶν, καὶ ἀπὸ χειρὸς συκοφαντούντων αὐτοὺς ἰσχύς, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῖς παρακαλῶν.
LXX
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.
ASV
וְ/שַׁ֣בְתִּֽי אֲנִ֗י וָ/אֶרְאֶה֙ אֶת כָּל הָ֣/עֲשֻׁקִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר נַעֲשִׂ֖ים תַּ֣חַת הַ/שָּׁ֑מֶשׁ וְ/הִנֵּ֣ה דִּמְעַ֣ת הָ/עֲשֻׁקִ֗ים וְ/אֵ֤ין לָ/הֶם֙ מְנַחֵ֔ם וּ/מִ/יַּ֤ד עֹֽשְׁקֵי/הֶם֙ כֹּ֔חַ וְ/אֵ֥ין לָ/הֶ֖ם מְנַחֵֽם
Hebrew
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17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Tim 4:16 — At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
- Amos 4:1 — Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
- Deut 28:33 — The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
- Deut 28:48 — Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, u
- Eccl 3:16 — And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
- Eccl 3:16 — And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
- Eccl 4:7 — Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
- Eccl 5:8 — If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher
- Eccl 5:8 — If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher
- Eccl 7:7 — Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
- Eccl 7:7 — Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
- Eccl 9:11 — I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skil
- Eccl 10:5 — There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:
- Exod 1:13 — And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour:
- Exod 1:16 — And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.
- Exod 1:22 — And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
- Exod 2:23 — And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage
- Exod 3:9 — Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
- Exod 5:16 — There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
- Hab 1:3 — Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
- Isa 5:7 — For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
- Isa 51:23 — But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went o
- Isa 59:7 — Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
- Isa 59:13 — In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- Jas 5:4 — Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth
- Job 6:29 — Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
- Job 16:4 — I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
- Job 19:21 — Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
- Job 24:7 — They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
- Job 24:12 — Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
- Job 35:9 — By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
- Judg 4:3 — And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
- Judg 10:7 — And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
- Lam 1:2 — She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
- Lam 1:9 — Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
- Lam 1:9 — Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
- Mal 2:13 — And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your
- Mal 3:5 — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his
- Mal 3:18 — Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
- Matt 26:56 — But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.