 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.  The Metaphysical Magazine - Page 4231896Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | James Duncan - 1840 - 150 pages
...thereof, because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes." Eccl. iv. 1. "So I returned and considered all the oppressions...the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comfort ; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter. Wherefore... | |
 | 1841 - 188 pages
...the dust merely for the sake of gain. Were Solomon now alive, he might say as truly as he once did, " So I returned and considered all the oppressions that...oppressed, and they had no comforter : and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter." Truly may we say, • " Man's inhumanity... | |
 | George Bush - 1841 - 318 pages
...alas ! theirs was a case of which it might well be said in the language of the preacher, Ecc. 1. ], (I returned and considered all the oppressions that...oppressed, and they had no comforter ; and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter.' 16. The fault is in thine own people.... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...but Christ and his Holy Spirit dwelling in us! See Phil. 4. 13; 2 Tim. 1. u. The Preacher sheweth 1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions...oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. -2 Wherefore I praised the dead which... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...3. — What are the Duties of Magistrates: and what they should be negatively, and affirmatively. I CONSIDERED all the oppressions that are done under...oppressed, and they had no comforter : and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. — Eccles. iv. 1. Thou shalt provide... | |
 | John Campbell - 1842 - 512 pages
...of the afflicted poor. Take, for example, the following reflection of the Royal philosopher : — " So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun ; and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter : on the side of their oppressors,... | |
 | Robert Benton Seeley - 1842 - 706 pages
...affected at their continued success ; so that I can hardly refrain from exclaiming with one of old, " I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed; and on the side of the oppressors there was power; but... | |
 | Vera Brittain - 1994 - 676 pages
...be no words in which to describe the situation but the sad, disillusioned words of Ecclesiastes : " So I returned, and considered all the oppressions...oppressed, and they had no comforter ; and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter." And at last I had come to believe that,... | |
 | Ben Zion Bokser, Baruch M. Bokser - 1989 - 264 pages
...dismay at the inequity this involved; it is based on a verse in Ecclesiastes: "But I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun; and behold the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and on the side of the oppressors there was power, but they... | |
 | Gary B. Nash - 1990 - 240 pages
...this horrid scene of barbarous oppression, cannot but feel the truth and propriety of Solomon's words. "So I returned, and considered all the oppressions...that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of the oppressors there was power; but they... | |
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