| Carole J Keller - 2006 - 321 páginas
...under the excessive control of another individual, which causes an oppressive state. "So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under...oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter" (Ecclesiastes 4:1). When oppressed, people are held captive by fear and learn to keep silent and live... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) - 2007 - 560 páginas
...belief, That ever round our head Are hovering, on angel wings, The spirits of the CHAPTER 33 Cassy1 "And behold, the tears of such as were oppressed,...oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter." — ECCL. 4:1. -t took but a short time to familiarize Tom with all that was to be hoped or feared... | |
| Norman Lamm - 2006 - 386 páginas
...undesirable. Thus, the Sages offer a poignant comment on the verse in Koheleth (Eccl. 4:1): "I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun; and behold the tears of the oppressed who have no comforter; the oppressors have power, but they [the victims] have no power."... | |
| Stuart Saul - 2006 - 309 páginas
...and from the unformed rock infer the massive and sculptured temple and home. Ecci 3:16-17 Consider all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and behold the tears of such as have no comforter, if you would see the pettiness of your own frets, and the magnificence of your own... | |
| Edward Baugh - 2006 - 230 páginas
...rueful pathos: 'So I returned and considered all the oppressions / that are done under the sun. . . / wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, / More than the living which are yet alive' (Ecclesiastes 4: 1—2). 'BEEF, NO CHICKEN' In Beef, No Chicken (first produced in 1981), as... | |
| Gustaw Herling-Grudziński - 2003 - 292 páginas
...the preacher: "vanity and chasing the wind." Twice, with tears in her eyes, she read this passage: 1 praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that... | |
| Robert Anderson - 2007 - 313 páginas
...earth. " I 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 their oppressors there was power, but t/tey had no comforter." * And how can such things be, if indeed the God who rules above is almighty... | |
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