• Why So Much Despair?
    The Watchtower—1992 | July 1

    • Harsh political realities, violence, economic difficulties, all may provoke degrees of despair. Even professional people are not immune as they seek to maintain their affluent life-style while coping with increasing financial problems. The result? “Mere oppression may make a wise one act crazy,” as King Solomon of old said!a (Ecclesiastes 7:7) Indeed, despair leads an increasing number to take the most extreme way out​—suicide.

  • Why So Much Despair?
    The Watchtower—1992 | July 1

    • a According to the Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, edited by Harris, Archer, and Waltke, the original language root of the word translated “oppression” relates to “the burdening, trampling, and crushing of those lower in station.”