“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 (KJV) |

Ecclesiastes 4:1

From Ecclesiastes 4, in the Book of Ecclesiastes (Old Testament).

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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.

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Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

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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.

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