Ecc 4:1 | NASB2020 | STEP | 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 power was on the side of their oppressors , but they had no one to comfort them.

a Job 35:9; Ps 12:5; Eccl 3:16; 5:8; Is 5:7

Ecclesiastes 4:1

The Evils of Oppression

1 Then I looked again at all the acts of ^aoppression which were being done under the sun. And behold, I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had ^bno one to comfort them; and power was on the side of their oppressors, but they had no one to comfort them.