Ecclesiastes 8:8

English Standard Version 2016

No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

Cross References

Psalm 89:48

What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Job 14:5

Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Isaiah 28:15

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

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.

Psalm 9:17

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

2 Corinthians 13:4

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

1 Corinthians 15:43

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

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.

Job 34:14

If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath,

2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.

2 Kings 7:15

So they went after them as far as the Jordan, and behold, all the way was littered with garments and equipment that the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Proverbs 12:3

No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

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.”