Ecclesiastes 4:1 meaning and explanation
Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the Teacher, a wisdom figure surveying life "under the sun," his phrase for the world as it actually runs. Having examined toil and success in chapter 3, he now turns to oppression and reports what he sees: tears on the faces of the oppressed, no one to comfort them, and power held entirely by those who crush them.
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