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. 1 Ecc 3:16Ecc 5:82Ti 4:16-17Isa 5:7Isa 51:23Isa 59:13-15Jas 5:4Job 35:9 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Job 3:11-26Ecc 2:17Ecc 9:4-6 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. Luk 23:29Ecc 6:3-5Mat 24:19Ecc 2:17Jer 20:17-18Jer 9:2-3Job 10:18-19Job 3:10-16
¶ 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. 2 3 1Jn 3:12Ecc 1:14Ecc 2:21Ecc 2:261Sa 18:14-161Sa 18:29-301Sa 18:8-9Ecc 4:16 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. Isa 9:20Pro 6:10-11Pro 13:4Job 13:14Pro 20:4Pro 11:17Pro 12:27Pro 24:33-34 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. Pro 15:16-17Pro 16:8Psa 37:16Pro 17:1
¶ Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. Ecc 4:1Psa 78:33Zec 1:6 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. 1Jn 2:16Pro 27:20Luk 12:20Ecc 1:8Ecc 1:13Mat 11:28Ecc 4:9-12Ecc 5:10
¶ Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. Pro 27:17Gen 2:181Co 12:18-21Mrk 6:7Num 11:14Jhn 4:36Rut 2:12Act 13:2 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. 1Th 5:111Th 4:18Gal 6:1Isa 35:3-4Job 4:3-41Sa 23:16Luk 22:31-322Sa 12:7-14 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? 1Ki 1:1-4 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Dan 3:16-17Eph 4:32Sa 23:92Sa 23:232Sa 23:18-192Sa 23:16
¶ Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. 4 2Ch 25:16Pro 19:12Ch 16:9-10Pro 28:15-161Ki 22:8Ecc 9:15-16Gen 37:2Pro 28:6 For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor. Gen 41:14Psa 113:7-8Job 5:11Lam 4:202Ki 24:122Ki 24:62Ki 25:27-302Ki 25:7 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead. 2Sa 15:6 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. Ecc 1:141Ki 1:40Ecc 2:171Ki 1:5-71Ki 12:10-162Sa 15:12-132Sa 18:7-82Sa 19:9