The Evils of Oppression

Ecclesiastes 4:1-8

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 side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 
2  Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. 
3  Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. 
4  Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. 
5  The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh. 
6  Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit. 
7  Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. 
8  There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.