Ecclesiastes 4:1

The Existence Of Oppression In The World Makes Human Existence Miserable

¹ And I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, and they had no comforter. ² Then I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive;

On Earth

Under the Sun

No

Ecclesiastes 3:16

And moreover I saw under the sun, that in the place of judgment, wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there.

Ecclesiastes 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 a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry.

Lamentations 1:2

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath no comforter; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:9

Her impurity was in her skirts, she remembered not her latter end; and she came down wonderfully: she hath no comforter. Jehovah, behold my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.

Exodus 1:13-14

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with harshness;

Exodus 1:16

and he said, When ye help the Hebrew women in bearing, and see them on the stool, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him, but if a daughter, then she shall live.

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, but every daughter ye shall save alive.

Exodus 2:23-24

And it came to pass during those many days, that the king of Egypt died. And the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and cried; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage;

Exodus 5:16-19

There is no straw given to thy bondmen, and they say to us, Make brick; and behold, thy bondmen are beaten, but it is the fault of thy people.

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of thy ground and all thy labour, shall a people that thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed continually.

Deuteronomy 28:48

thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

Judges 4:3

Then the people of Israel cried to the LORD for help; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.

Judges 10:7-8

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,

Nehemiah 5:1-5

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

Job 6:29

Return, I pray you, let there be no wrong; yea, return again, my righteousness shall be in it.

Job 16:4

I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;

Job 19:21-22

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, ye my friends; for the hand of +God hath touched me.

Job 24:7-12

They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

Job 35:9

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty:

Psalm 10:9-10

He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net.

Psalm 12:5

Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set him in safety, at whom they puff.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

Psalm 42:9

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Psalm 69:20

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 80:5

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:

Psalm 102:8-9

Mine enemies reproach me all the day; they that are mad against me swear by me.

Psalm 142:4

Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.

Proverbs 19:7

All the brethren of a poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him: he pursueth them with words, they are not to be found.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor man who oppresseth the helpless is a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

Proverbs 28:15-16

A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad, and a gift destroyeth the heart.

Isaiah 51:23

and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; who 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 over.

Isaiah 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;

Isaiah 59:13-15

in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Malachi 2:13

And further ye do this: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the oblation any more, nor receiveth it with satisfaction at your hand.

Malachi 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 the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hired servant in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Malachi 3:18

And ye shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Matthew 26:56

But all this is come to pass that the scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled.

2 Timothy 4:16-17

At my first defence no man stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be imputed to them.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.