Ecclesiastes 4:1
“So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done vnder the sunne; & behold the teares of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter: and on the side of their oppressours there was power, but they had no comforter.”
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Ecclesiastes 4:1 Context
1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done vnder the sunne; & behold the teares of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter: and on the side of their oppressours there was power, but they had no comforter. 2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more then the liuing which are yet aliue. 3Yea better is he then both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seene the euill worke that is done vnder the Sunne.
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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.
- King James Version
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.}
- New American Standard Version (1995)