“For we shall certainly die and become like water spilled on the ground, which is not gathered up again. Yet Elohim does not take away a life, but shall devise ways, so that His outcast ones are not cast out from Him.
Ecclesiastes 8:8 - The Scriptures 2009 No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one has power in the day of death. There is no discharge in battle, and wrongness does not release those who are given to it. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the breath of life, neither has he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in battle [against death], neither will wickedness deliver those who are its possessors and given to it. American Standard Version (1901) There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it. Common English Bible No one has control over the life-breath, to retain it, and there’s no control over the day of death. There’s no release from war, and wickedness won’t deliver those who practice it. Catholic Public Domain Version It is not in the power of a man to prohibit the spirit, nor does he have authority over the day of death, nor is he permitted to rest when war breaks out, and neither will impiety save the impious. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked. |
“For we shall certainly die and become like water spilled on the ground, which is not gathered up again. Yet Elohim does not take away a life, but shall devise ways, so that His outcast ones are not cast out from Him.
And they went after them to the Yardĕn. And look, all the way was littered with garments and weapons which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and reported to the sovereign.
Since his days are decided, the number of his new moons is with You, You have made his laws, and he does not pass over.
If He sets His heart on him, should He gather to Himself his spirit and his breath,
What man would live and not see death? Who rescues his life from the power of She’ol? Selah.
Yod The wrong return to She’ol, All the nations that forget Elohim.
A man is not established by wrongness, But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.
By his own evildoing the wrong is thrust down, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.
Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the beast, which goes down to the earth?
But it shall not be well with the wrong one, nor would he prolong his days as a shadow, because he does not fear before Elohim.
For even man does not know his time. Like fish taken in an evil net, and like birds caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared in an evil time, when it comes down on them suddenly.
because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with She’ol we have effected a vision. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it does not come to us, for we have made lying our refuge, and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”
And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your vision with She’ol not stand. When an overflowing scourge passes through, then you shall be trampled down by it.
“And you have trusted in your evil, you have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge have led you astray. And you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is none but me.’
it is sown in disrespect, it is raised in esteem; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
For though He was impaled in weakness, yet He lives by the power of Elohim. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of Elohim toward you.