Ecclesiastes 4:1-2

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4 Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.^{(A) 2} And I commended the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are still alive,