Ecclesiastes 8:8

New King James Version

No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, And no one has power in the day of death. There is no release from that war, And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.

Cross References

Psalm 89:48

What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the power of the grave? Selah

Job 14:5

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

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, It will not come to us, For we have made lies our refuge, And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows the spirit of the sons of men, which goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, which goes down to the earth?

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is banished in his wickedness, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall be turned into hell, And all the nations that forget God.

2 Corinthians 13:4

For though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, but we shall live with Him by the power of God toward you.

1 Corinthians 15:43

It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power.

Isaiah 28:18

Your covenant with death will be annulled, And your agreement with Sheol will not stand; When the overflowing scourge passes through, Then you will be trampled down by it.

Job 34:14

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

2 Samuel 14:14

For we will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him.

2 Kings 7:15

And they went after them to the Jordan; and indeed all the road was full of garments and weapons which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Proverbs 12:3

A man is not established by wickedness, But the root of the righteous cannot be moved.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man also does not know his time: Like fish taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, When it falls suddenly upon them.

Isaiah 47:10

“For you have trusted in your wickedness; You have said, ‘No one sees me’; Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you; And you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’