Ecclesiastes 8:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 5 Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.

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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

9 And the king said: Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? The woman answered, and said: By the health of thy soul, my lord, O king, it is neither on the left hand, nor on the right, in all these things which my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he commanded me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy handmaid.

2 Kings 7:15

0 And so it fell out to him as it was foretold, and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.

Job 14:5

0 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

Job 34:14

0 They shall suddenly die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and they shall pass, and take away the violent without hand.

Psalm 89:48

Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

Psalm 9:17

The sinner hath provoked the Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him:

Proverbs 12:3

0 The just regardeth the lives of his beasts: but the bowels of the wicked are cruel.

Proverbs 14:32

A peaceable tongue is a tree of life: but that which is immoderate, shall crush the spirit.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Dying flies spoil the sweetness of the ointment. Wisdom and glory is more precious than a small and shortlived folly.

Isaiah 28:15

3 Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.

Isaiah 28:18

6 For he will instruct him in judgment : his God will teach him.

Isaiah 47:10

The former things of old I have declared, and they went forth out of my mouth, and I have made them to be heard: I did them suddenly and they came to pass.

1 Corinthians 15:43

2 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise again incorruptible: and we shall be changed.

2 Corinthians 13:4

3 All the saints salute you.

Hebrews 9:27

In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.