Ecclesiastes 8:8

Legacy Standard Bible

There is no man who has power to restrain the wind with the wind, and there is none who has power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and wickedness will not provide escape to its masters.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but thinks up ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.

2 Kings 7:15

Then they went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. Then the messengers returned and told the king.

Job 14:5

“Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass.

Job 34:14

“If He should set His heart on it, If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath,

Psalm 89:48

What man can live and not see death? Can he provide his soul escape from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Psalm 9:17

¶The wicked will return to Sheol, Even all the nations who forget God.

Proverbs 12:3

A man will not be established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous will not be shaken.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is thrust down by his own evil, But the righteous takes refuge even in his death.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well for the wicked man, and he will not prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God openly.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish seized in an evil net and birds seized in a trap, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, “We have cut a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a pact. The overflowing scourge will not reach us when it passes by, For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have hidden ourselves with lying.”

Isaiah 28:18

“Your covenant with death will be canceled, And your pact with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge passes through, Then you will become its trampling place.

Isaiah 47:10

“You felt secure in your evil and said, ‘No one sees me,’ Your wisdom and your knowledge have turned you astray; So you have 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 indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God toward you.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,