Ecclesiastes 8:8

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

2 Kings 7:15

They went after them to the Yarden: and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.

Job 14:5

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

Job 34:14

If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

Psalm 89:48

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of She'ol? Selah.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall be turned back to She'ol, even 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 brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?*

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even 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 She'ol are we in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it won't come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood.'*

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with She'ol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled 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 there is none else 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 through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

Hebrews 9:27

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,