Ecclesiastes 8:8

Modern King James Version

There is no man who has power over the spirit to keep the spirit; nor power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war; nor shall wickedness deliver its owners.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must all die, and we are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. 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 Jordan. And, lo, all the way was full of clothing and vessels which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.

Job 14:5

For his days are fixed, the number of his months is with You, and You have set his bounds so that he cannot pass;

Job 34:14

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

Psalm 89:48

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

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall be turned into hell, 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?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wicked, nor shall he make his days longer like a shadow; because he does not fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also does not know 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 we have made a vision with hell; when the overwhelming rod shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood,

Isaiah 28:18

And your covenant with death shall be wiped out, and your vision with hell shall not stand; when the overwhelming rod shall pass through, then you shall be beaten down by it.

Isaiah 47:10

For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no one else.

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 indeed even we 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,