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.
i returned
Job 6:29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my …
Malachi 3:18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the …
and considered
Ecclesiastes 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness …
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of …
Ecclesiastes 7:7 Surely oppression makes a wise man mad; and a gift destroys the heart.
Exodus 1:13,14,16,22 And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor…
Exodus 2:23,24 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: …
Exodus 5:16-19 There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, Make …
Deuteronomy 28:33,48 The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall a nation which …
Judges 4:3 And the children of Israel cried to the LORD: for he had nine hundred …
Judges 10:7,8 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them …
Nehemiah 5:1-5 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against …
Job 24:7-12 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no …
Psalm 10:9,10 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to …
Proverbs 28:3,15,16 A poor man that oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain which …
Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and …
Isaiah 51:23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you; which have …
Isaiah 59:7,13-15 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: …
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness …
the tears
Psalm 42:3,9 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually …
Psalm 80:5 You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink …
Psalm 102:8,9 My enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against …
Malachi 2:13 And this have you done again, covering the altar of the LORD with …
James 5:4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, …
they had
Job 16:4 I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, …
Job 19:21,22 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends; for the hand …
Psalm 69:20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked …
Psalm 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that …
Proverbs 19:7 All the brothers of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends …
Lamentations 1:2,9 She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among …
Matthew 25:26 His lord answered and said to him, You wicked and slothful servant, …
2 Timothy 4:16,17 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: …
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
better
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that …
Job 3:10-16 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow …
Job 10:18,19 Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had …
Jeremiah 20:17,18 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have …
Matthew 24:19 And woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Luke 23:29 For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed …
who
Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, …
Ecclesiastes 2:17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is worked under the …
Psalm 55:6-11 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly …
Jeremiah 9:2,3 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; …
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
every or all the rightness of work, that this is the envy of a man from his neighbour
Genesis 4:4-8 And Abel, he also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of the …
Genesis 37:2-11 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years …
1 Samuel 18:8,9,14-16,29,30 And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, …
Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Matthew 27:18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
Acts 7:9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but …
James 4:5 Do you think that the scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells …
1 John 3:12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And …
this is
Ecclesiastes 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness …
Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, …
Ecclesiastes 2:21,26 For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity…
Ecclesiastes 6:9,11 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: …
Genesis 37:4,11 And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all …
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
one
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor…
Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; …
Isaiah 56:3-5 Neither let the son of the stranger, that has joined himself to the …
he hath
Genesis 15:2,3 And Abram said, LORD God, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, …
no
Isaiah 5:8 Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till …
is his
Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not …
Ecclesiastes 5:10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that …
Proverbs 27:20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Habakkuk 2:5,9 Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither …
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust …
for
Psalm 39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted …
Isaiah 44:19,20 And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding …
Luke 12:20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required …
it is
Ecclesiastes 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all …
Ecclesiastes 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yes, his heart …
Isaiah 55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor …
Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
are
Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; …
Exodus 4:14-16 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, …
Numbers 11:14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
Haggai 1:14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, …
Mark 6:7 And he called to him the twelve, and began to send them forth by …
Acts 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said…
Acts 15:39,40 And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed …
1 Corinthians 12:18-21 But now has God set the members every one of them in the body, as …
a good
Ruth 2:12 The LORD recompense your work, and a full reward be given you of …
John 4:36 And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to life eternal: …
2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have worked, …
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
if
Exodus 32:2-4,21 And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden earrings, which are …
Deuteronomy 9:19,20 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which the …
1 Samuel 23:16 And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and …
2 Samuel 11:27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his …
2 Samuel 12:7 And Nathan said to David, You are the man. Thus said the LORD God …
Job 4:3,4 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands…
Isaiah 35:3,4 Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees…
Luke 22:31,32 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired to have …
Galatians 2:11-14 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, …
Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, …
1 Thessalonians 4:18 Why comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 Why comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do.
but
Genesis 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when …
2 Samuel 14:6 And your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the …
Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
and if
2 Samuel 23:9,16,18,19,23 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the …
Daniel 3:16,17 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O …
Ephesians 4:3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
is a poor
Ecclesiastes 9:15,16 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered …
Genesis 37:2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years …
Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor that walks in his integrity, than he that is perverse …
Proverbs 28:6,15,16 Better is the poor that walks in his uprightness, than he that is …
will no more be
1 Kings 22:8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, …
2 Chronicles 16:9,10 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth…
2 Chronicles 24:20-22 And the Spirit of God came on Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, …
2 Chronicles 25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to …
For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.
for out
Genesis 41:14,33-44 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily …
Job 5:11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be …
Psalm 113:7,8 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of …
also
1 Kings 14:26,27 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the …
2 Kings 23:31-34 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and …
2 Kings 24:1,2,6,12 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim …
2 Kings 25:7,27-30 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the …
Lamentations 4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in …
Daniel 4:31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, …
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
no end
2 Samuel 15:12,13 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, …
1 Kings 1:5-7,40 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will …
1 Kings 12:10-16 And the young men that were grown up with him spoke to him, saying, …
they also
Judges 9:19,20 If you then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with …
2 Samuel 18:7,8 Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David…
2 Samuel 19:9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, …
this
Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, …
Ecclesiastes 2:11,17,26 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had worked, and on the …
