Ecclesiastes 3:16
I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Psalms 58:1Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title.
Psalms 82:2How long will you judge unjustly: and accept the persons of the wicked?
Ecclesiastes 4:1I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any.
Ecclesiastes 5:8Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.
Micah 2:2And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
Zephaniah 3:3Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 3:12-16
Mutability of Human Affairs. 11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. 12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. 13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. 14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken… Read the whole commentary →