Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 4:1
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“And leaving all these reflections, I considered and turned in aversion from all the forms of oppression which are done among men; whence some receiving injury weep and lament, who are struck down by violence in utter default of those who protect them, or who should by all means comfort them in their trouble. And the m…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
1So I returned, And saw all the oppressions That were done under the sun: And behold the tear of the oppressed, And they had no comforter; And on the side of them that oppressed them was power; But they had no comforter:
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— Ecclesiastes 4:1 —
2And I praised all the dead that had already died More than the living, As many as are alive until now.
3Better also than both these Is he who has not yet been, Who has not seen all the evil work That is done under the sun.