Ecclesiastes 8:8

American King James Version (1999)

There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has 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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person: yet does he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

2 Kings 7:15

And they went after them to Jordan: and, see, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.

Job 14:5

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with you, you have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Job 34:14

If he set his heart on man, if he gather to himself his spirit and his breath;

Psalm 89:48

What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 12:3

A man shall not be established by wickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he fears not before God.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also knows not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing whip shall pass through, it shall not come to us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing whip shall pass through, then you shall be trodden down by it.

Isaiah 47:10

For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and none else beside 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 though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment: