Ecclesiastes 8:8

New American Bible - revised edition

No one is master of the breath of life so as to retain it, and none has mastery of the day of death. There is no exemption in wartime, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We must indeed die; we are then like water that is poured out on the ground and cannot be gathered up. Yet, though God does not bring back to life, he does devise means so as not to banish anyone from him.

2 Kings 7:15

They followed the Arameans as far as the Jordan, and the whole route was strewn with garments and other objects that the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. The messengers returned and told the king.

Job 14:5

Since his days are determined— you know the number of his months; you have fixed the limit which he cannot pass—

Job 34:14

If he were to set his mind to it, gather to himself his spirit and breath,

Psalm 89:48

Remember how brief life is, how frail the sons of man you have created!

Psalm 9:17

The Lord is revealed in making judgments: by the deeds they do the wicked are trapped. Higgaion. Selah

Proverbs 12:3

No one is made secure by wickedness, but the root of the just will never be disturbed.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their wickedness, but the just find a refuge in their integrity.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows if the life breath of mortals goes upward and the life breath of beasts goes earthward?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

and that it shall not be well with the wicked, who shall not prolong their shadowy days, for their lack of reverence toward God.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Human beings no more know their own time than fish taken in the fatal net or birds trapped in the snare; like these, mortals are caught when an evil time suddenly falls upon them. The Uncertain Future and the Sages.

Isaiah 28:15

You have declared, “We have made a covenant with death, with Sheol we have made a pact; When the raging flood passes through, it will not reach us; For we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have found a hiding place,”—

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death shall be canceled and your pact with Sheol shall not stand. When the raging flood passes through, you shall be beaten down by it.

Isaiah 47:10

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, and no one else!”

1 Corinthians 15:43

It is sown dishonorable; it is raised glorious. It is sown weak; it is raised powerful.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For indeed he was crucified out of weakness, but he lives by the power of God. So also we are weak in him, but toward you we shall live with him by the power of God.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as it is appointed that human beings die once, and after this the judgment,