Ecclesiastes 4:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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under the sun. See note on Ecclesiastes 1:3.

side. Hebrew "hand": put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the violence proceeding from it.

they: i.e. the oppressed. The phrase repeated for emphasis. Figure of speech Epistrophe. App-6.

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Ecclesiastes 4:1

1 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 sidea of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.