Ecclesiastes 8:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ No one has authority over the wind  to restrain it,  and there is no authority over the day of death;  no one is discharged during battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practise it to escape.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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

⁸ 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)

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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.

Ecclesiastes 8:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We will certainly die  and be like water poured out on the ground, which can’t be recovered. But God would not take away a life; he would devise plans so that the one banished from him does not remain banished.

2 Kings 7:15

So they followed them as far as the Jordan. They saw that the whole way was littered with clothes and equipment the Arameans had thrown off in their haste. The messengers returned and told the king.

Job 14:5

Since a person’s days are determined and the number of his months depends on you, and since you have set   limits he cannot pass,

Job 34:14

If he put his mind to it and withdrew the spirit  and breath he gave,

Proverbs 12:3

No one can be made secure by wickedness, but the root of the righteous is immovable.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows if the spirits of the children of Adam go upwards and the spirits of animals go downwards to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

However, it will not go well with the wicked,  and they will not lengthen their days like a shadow,  for they are not reverent before God.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For certainly no one knows his time:  like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds caught in a trap,  so people are trapped in an evil time  as it suddenly falls on them.

Isaiah 28:15

For you said, ‘We have made a covenant with Death, and we have an agreement with Sheol; when the overwhelming catastrophe  passes through, it will not touch us, because we have made falsehood our refuge and have hidden behind treachery.’

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with Death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming catastrophe passes through, you will be trampled.

Isaiah 47:10

You were secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me.” Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray. You said to yourself, “I am, and there is no one else.”

1 Corinthians 15:43

sown in dishonour,  raised in glory;  sown in weakness, raised in power;

2 Corinthians 13:4

For he was crucified  in weakness, but he lives  by the power of God. For we also are weak in him,  but in dealing with you we will live  with him by God’s power.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for people to die once #– #and after this, judgement   #– #