Don't be surprised when you see the poor oppressed and the violent perverting both justice and verdicts in a province, for one high official watches another, and there are ones higher still over them.

There exists another misfortune that I have observed on earth, and it is a heavy burden upon human beings:

"Look at this," says the Teacher. "Linking one thing to another, I reached this conclusion:

I observed all this, and carefully considered everything that is undertaken on earth, especially the time when someone dominates another to his detriment.

Here's another tragedy that I've observed on earth, a kind of error that comes from an overseer: