Ecclesiastes 4:1

The Existence Of Oppression In The World Makes Human Existence Miserable

¹ So I turned me, and considered all the violent wrong that is done under the Sun, and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed; and there was no man to comfort them or that would deliver and defend them from the violence of their oppressors. ² Wherefore I judged those that are dead, to be more happy than such as be alive.

On Earth

Under the Sun

No

Ecclesiastes 3:16

Moreover, I saw under the sun ungodliness in the stead of judgment, and iniquity instead of righteousness.

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If thou seest the poor to be oppressed and wrongfully dealt withal, so that equity and the right of the law is wrested in the land: marvel not thou at such judgment, for one great man keepeth touch with another, and the mighty help themselves together.

Isaiah 5:7

As for the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts, it is the house of Israel, and whole Judah his fair planting. Of these he looked for equity, but see there is wrong; for righteousness, lo, it is but misery.

Lamentations 1:2

{Beth} She weepeth sore in the night, so that the tears run down her cheeks: for among all her lovers, there is none that giveth her any comfort. Yea, her next friends transgress against her, and are become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:9

{Tet} Her skirts are defiled, she remembered not what would follow: therefore is her fall so great, and there is no man to comfort her. O LORD, consider my trouble, for my enemy hath the upper hand.

Exodus 1:13-14

And the Egyptians held the children of Israel in bondage without mercy,

Exodus 1:16

"When ye midwife the women of the Hebrews and see in the birth time that it is a boy, kill it. But if it be a maid, let it live."

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "All the men children that are born, cast into the river; and save the maid children alive."

Exodus 2:23-24

And it chanced, in process of time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by the reason of labour, and cried.

Exodus 5:16-19

There is no straw given unto thy servants, and yet they say unto us, 'make brick.' And lo, thy servants are beaten, and thy people is foul intreated."

Deuteronomy 28:33

The fruit of thy land and all thy labours shall a nation eat, which thou knowest not; and thou shalt but suffer violence only and be oppressed always,

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore thou shalt serve thine enemy which the LORD shall send upon thee: in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and in need of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thine neck, until he have brought thee to nought.

Judges 4:3

And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; He oppressed the children of Israel with power twenty years.

Judges 10:7-8

And the LORD was wroth with Israel, and sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon:

Nehemiah 5:1-5

And there arose a great complaint of the people, and of their wives, against their brethren the Jews.

Job 6:29

Turn into your own selves, I pray you: be indifferent judges, and consider my guiltlessness:

Job 16:4

I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my soul's stead: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

Job 19:21-22

Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends! For the hand of God hath touched me.

Job 24:7-12

They are the cause that so many men are naked and bare, having no clothes to cover them and keep them from cold;

Job 35:9

"There is a great cry and complaint made by them that are oppressed with violence; yea, every man complaineth upon the cruel arm of tyrants.

Psalm 10:9-10

For he lieth waiting secretly; even as a lion lurketh he in his den, that he may ravish the poor. He doth ravish the poor when he getteth him into his net.

Psalm 12:5

"Now, for the comfortless troubles' sake of the needy, and because of the deep sighing of the poor, I will arise," saith the LORD, "and will help them, and set them at rest."

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, "Where is now thy God?"

Psalm 42:9

I will say unto God my strength, "Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?"

Psalm 69:20

Thy rebuke breaketh my heart, and maketh me heavy. I look for some to have pity upon me, but there is no man; and for some to comfort me, but I find none.

Psalm 80:5

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, yea thou hast given them plenteousness of tears to drink.

Psalm 102:8-9

Mine enemies revile me all the day long; and they that are mad upon me are sworn together against me.

Psalm 142:4

I look upon my righthand, and see there is no man that will know me. I have no place to flee unto, no man careth for my soul.

Proverbs 19:7

As for the poor, he is hated among all his brethren; yea, his own friends forsake him, and he that giveth credence unto words, getteth nothing.

Proverbs 28:3

One poor man oppressing another by violence, is like a continual rain that destroyeth the fruit.

Proverbs 28:15-16

Like as a roaring lion and a hungry bear, even so is an ungodly prince over the poor people.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Whoso doeth wrong, maketh a wise man to go out of his wit, and destroyeth a gentle heart.

Isaiah 51:23

And will put it in their hand that trouble thee: which have spoken to thy soul, "Stoop down, that we may go over thee: make thy body even with the ground, and as the street to go upon."

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their counsels are wicked counsels; harm and destruction are in their ways.

Isaiah 59:13-15

Namely transgress and dissemble against the LORD, and fall away from our God: using presumptuous and traitorous imaginations, and casting false matters in our hearts.

Malachi 2:13

Now have ye brought it to this point again, that the altar of the LORD is covered with tears, weeping, and mourning: so that I will no more regard the meat offering, neither will I receive or accept anything at your hands.

Malachi 3:5

I will come and punish you, and I myself will be a swift witness against the witches, against the adulterers, against false swearers: yea, and against those that wrongfully keep back the hireling's duty, which vex the widows and the fatherless, and oppress the stranger, and fear not me, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 3:18

Turn you therefore, and consider what difference is betwixt the righteous and ungodly: betwixt him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.

Matthew 26:56

All this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.

2 Timothy 4:16-17

At my first answering for myself, no man assisted me, but all forsook me. I pray God, that it may not be laid to their charges:

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the laborers which have reaped down your fields - which hire 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 Hosts.