Ecclesiastes 4:1

The Existence Of Oppression In The World Makes Human Existence Miserable

¹ Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them. ² I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

On Earth

Under the Sun

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Ecclesiastes 3:16

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

Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the country, do not be shocked at the sight. One official watches over another official and there are higher officials over them.

Isaiah 5:7

I am Jehovah of Hosts (All Powerful)! Israel is the vineyard, and Judah is the garden I tended with care. I had hoped for honesty and for justice, but dishonesty and cries for mercy were all I found.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her cheeks are wet from crying. Her lovers offer no comfort. Her friends have been false to her. They have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:9

In her skirts were her unclean ways. She did not think of the future. Her fall has been a wonder. She has no comforter: See her sorrow, O Jehovah, for the enemy is lifted up.

Exodus 1:13-14

They forced the Israelites to work hard as slaves.

Exodus 1:16

He said: When you help the Hebrew women give birth on the birth stool, if it is a son you shall put him to death. If it is a daughter, then she shall live.

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: Every son who is born must be thrown into the Nile River. However, keep every daughter alive.

Exodus 2:23-24

Time went by and the king of Egypt died. The Israelites still groaned because they were slaves. So they cried out, and their cries for help went up to God.

Exodus 5:16-19

No one brings us any straw. Yet we are still ordered to make the same number of bricks. We are beaten with whips, and your own people are to blame.

Deuteronomy 28:33

A foreign nation will take all the crops that you have worked so hard to grow. You will receive nothing but constant oppression and harsh treatment.

Deuteronomy 28:48

You will serve your enemies whom Jehovah will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Judges 4:3

Jabin had nine hundred iron chariots, and he ruled the people of Israel with cruelty and violence for twenty years. The people of Israel cried out to Jehovah for help.

Judges 10:7-8

The anger of Jehovah burned against Israel. So he allowed the Philistines and the Ammonites to conquer them.

Nehemiah 5:1-5

Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.

Job 6:29

Relent and do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.

Job 16:4

I too could speak like you, if I were in your place. I could compose words against you. And I would shake my head at you.

Job 19:21-22

Have pity on me, my friends! Have pity on me because God's hand has struck me down.

Job 24:7-12

They lie all night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

Job 35:9

Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out. They call for help because of the arm of the mighty.

Psalm 10:9-10

He lurks in his hiding place like a lion in his den. He hides there to catch oppressed people. He catches oppressed people after he draws them into his net.

Psalm 12:5

Because oppressed people are robbed and needy people groan, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will provide safety for those who long for it.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God?

Psalm 42:9

I will ask God, my rock: Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk around in mourning while the enemy oppresses me?

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 80:5

You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears.

Psalm 102:8-9

All day long my enemies have reproached me. Those who deride me used my name as a curse.

Psalm 142:4

Look to my right and see that no one notices me. Escape is impossible for me. No one cares about me.

Proverbs 19:7

The brothers of the poor hate him. His friends leave him. He pursues them with words but they do not listen!

Proverbs 28:3

A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.

Proverbs 28:15-16

Like a roaring lion and a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over the helpless people.

Ecclesiastes 7:7

Oppression makes a wise man foolish (emotionally unstable) (mentally ill) and a bribe destroys the heart.

Isaiah 51:23

I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you: 'Lie down that we may walk all over you. You made your back like the ground like a street to be walked over.'

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to do evil. They hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil. Ruin and destruction are on their highways.

Isaiah 59:13-15

We rebelled and denied Jehovah. We turned away from our God. We spoke about oppression and revolt. We conceived and uttered lies in our hearts.

Malachi 2:13

Another thing you do is drown Jehovah's altar with tears, weeping and wailing. This is because he no longer accepts the offerings you bring him.

Malachi 3:5

I will approach you people for judgment! I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers and those acting fraudulently with the wages of the worker, the widow and the fatherless. I will be a speedy witness against those who swear falsely and take advantage of the stranger, and do not show me reverence, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Malachi 3:18

Once again my people will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the person who serves God and the one who does not.

Matthew 26:56

This has taken place so that the writings of the prophets will come true. Then all his disciples left him.

2 Timothy 4:16-17

At first no one defended me. They all abandoned me. May it not be counted against them.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the laborers who harvested your fields, which are held back by you, cry out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of Jehovah of Hosts.