Exodus 5:16
There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
Cross-reference
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Parallel
Ecclesiastes 4:1 echoes the same oppression: tears of the oppressed with no comforter, just as the foremen are beaten unjustly.