Ecclesiastes 8:8

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Man is not a ruler over the spirit, to restrain the spirit; and not he has power in the day of death. And there is no discharge in that war, and wickedness shall not deliver its possessors.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For dying we die and are as water which is spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. And God does not take a life, but has devised plans so that the outcast is not cast out from Him.

2 Kings 7:15

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

Job 14:5

If his days are determined, the number of his months is with You, and You have made his bounds, and he cannot pass over;

Job 34:14

If He sets His heart on him, if He gathers his spirit and his breath to Himself,

Psalm 89:48

What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol? Selah.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked ones shall be turned to Sheol, all the nations forgetting God.

Proverbs 12:3

A man shall not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous ones shall not be dislodged.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked one is thrust out in his evil, but the righteous one seeks refuge in his death.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows the spirit of the sons of man, whether it goes upward; and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be good for the wicked one; and he shall not prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also does not know his time. As the fish that are caught in the evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the trap, like these 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 cut a covenant with death; and, We have made a vision with Sheol, when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us, for we have made the lie our refuge, and we have hidden in falsehood.

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death shall be covered; and your vision with Sheol shall not rise up. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, then you shall be for a trampling to it.

Isaiah 47:10

For you trusted in your evil; you said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it is turning you back; and you said in your heart, I am and there is none besides.

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 even if He was crucified out of weakness, yet He lives by the power of God). For even also we are weak in Him, yet we shall live by the power of God toward you.

Hebrews 9:27

And as much as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this, Judgment;