Ecclesiastes 8:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ No one has power over the wind to restrain the wind or power over the day of death; there is no discharge from the battle, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ 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.

Ecclesiastes 8:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.

2 Kings 7:15

So they went after them as far as the Jordan; the whole way was littered with garments and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king.

Job 14:5

Since their days are determined, and the number of their months is known to you, and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,

Job 34:14

If he should take back his spirit to himself and gather to himself his breath,

Psalm 89:48

Who can live and never see death? Who can escape the power of Sheol? Selah

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 12:3

No one finds security by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one can anticipate one’s time. Like fish taken in a cruel net or like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;

Isaiah 28:18

Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.

Isaiah 47:10

You felt secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me.” Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”

1 Corinthians 15:43

It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

2 Corinthians 13:4

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

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment,