Ecclesiastes 8:8

New English Translation

Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

Certainly we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground that cannot be gathered up again. But God does not take away life; instead he devises ways for the banished to be restored.

2 Kings 7:15

So they tracked them as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. The scouts went back and told the king.

Job 14:5

Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

Job 34:14

If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

Psalm 89:48

No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol. (Selah)

Psalm 9:17

The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol; this is the destiny of all the nations that ignore God,

Proverbs 12:3

No one can be established through wickedness, but a righteous root cannot be moved.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare – just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.

Isaiah 28:15

For you say, “We have made a treaty with death, with Sheol we have made an agreement. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by it will not reach us. For we have made a lie our refuge, we have hidden ourselves in a deceitful word.”

Isaiah 28:18

Your treaty with death will be dissolved; your agreement with Sheol will not last. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by, you will be overrun by it.

Isaiah 47:10

You were complacent in your evil deeds; you thought, ‘No one sees me.’ Your self-professed wisdom and knowledge lead you astray, when you say, ‘I am unique! No one can compare to 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 by reason of weakness, but he lives because of God’s power. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him, because of God’s power toward you.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,