For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.

If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

“Look,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find out the explanation,

All this I have seen, applying my mind to all the work that is done under the sun, at a time when one man has authority over another to his harm.