Devine Scripture

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Ecclesiastes chapter 4 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Context

v.1This passage

v.2Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:8

    If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.

  • 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 hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  • Deuteronomy 28:48

    therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that Jehovah shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

  • Ecclesiastes 7:7

    Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroyeth the understanding.

  • Isaiah 59:13

    transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Nehemiah 5:1

    Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.