Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.

Here is another misfortune that I have seen on earth, and it weighs heavily on people:

This is what I also observed about wisdom on earth, and it is a great burden to me:

I have seen another misfortune on the earth: It is an error a ruler makes.

I have seen slaves on horseback and princes walking on foot like slaves.

“I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.

I looked and saw that the fruitful land had become a desert and that all of the cities had been laid in ruins. The Lord had brought this all about because of his blazing anger.

The Lord says, “I saw the prophets of Samaria doing something that was disgusting. They prophesied in the name of the god Baal and led my people Israel astray.

Then I perceived that the glory of the God of Israel was there, as in the vision I had seen earlier in the valley.

I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel: there Ephraim practices temple prostitution and Judah defiles itself.

Just as lion cubs are born predators, so Ephraim will bear his sons for slaughter.

I see the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; the tent curtains of the land of Midian are shaking.

The Lord said to Noah, “Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!”

So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, “Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”

The Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

And now indeed the cry of the Israelites has come to me, and I have also seen how severely the Egyptians oppress them.

Then the Lord said to Moses: “I have seen this people. Look what a stiff-necked people they are!

Moreover, he said to me, “I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!

When he got home, he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. Now get her for my wife.”