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Ecclesiastes 4:1 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 4 · verse 1 · King James Version
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.Ecclesiastes 4:1 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 4:1 in context
1So 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.
2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Cross references
Key words (Strong's)
- oppressionsʻâshûwqused in plural masculine as abstractly, tyrannyH6217 →
- consideredrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- oppressedʻâshaqto press uponH6231 →
- comforternâchamproperly, to sighH5162 →
- returnedshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- tearsdimʻâhweepingH1832 →
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