Ecclesiastes 8:8

New Century Version

No one can control the wind or stop his own death. No soldier is released in times of war, and evil does not set free those who do evil.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We will all die someday. We’re like water spilled on the ground; no one can gather it back. But God doesn’t take away life. Instead, he plans ways that those who have been sent away will not have to stay away from him!

2 Kings 7:15

The men followed the Aramean army as far as the Jordan River. The road was full of clothes and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away as they had hurriedly left. So the messengers returned and told the king.

Job 14:5

Our time is limited. You have given us only so many months to live and have set limits we cannot go beyond.

Job 34:14

If God should decide to take away life and breath,

Psalm 89:48

What person alive will not die? Who can escape the grave?Selah

Psalm 9:17

Wicked people will go to the grave, and so will all those who forget God.

Proverbs 12:3

Doing evil brings no safety at all, but a good person has safety and security.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are ruined by their own evil, but those who do right are protected even in death.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who can be sure that the human spirit goes up to God and that the spirit of an animal goes down into the ground?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

I also know it will not go well for evil people, because they do not honor God. Like a shadow, they will not last.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

No one knows what will happen next. Like a fish caught in a net, or a bird caught in a trap, people are trapped by evil when it suddenly falls on them.

Isaiah 28:15

You say, “We have made an agreement with death; we have a contract with death. When terrible punishment passes by, it won’t hurt us. Our lies will keep us safe, and our tricks will hide us.”

Isaiah 28:18

Your agreement with death will be erased; your contract with death will not help you. When terrible punishment comes, you will be crushed by it.

Isaiah 47:10

You do evil things, but you feel safe and say, ‘No one sees what I do.’ Your wisdom and knowledge have fooled you. You say to yourself, ‘I am God, and no one is equal to me.’

1 Corinthians 15:43

When the body is “planted,” it is without honor, but it is raised in glory. When the body is “planted,” it is weak, but when it is raised, it is powerful.

2 Corinthians 13:4

It is true that he was weak when he was killed on the cross, but he lives now by God’s power. It is true that we are weak in Christ, but for you we will be alive in Christ by God’s power.

Hebrews 9:27

Just as everyone must die once and then be judged,