Ecclesiastes 8:8

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

No one has power over the wind to restrain the wind, or power over the day of death; there is no discharge from the battle, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.

2 Kings 7:15

So they went after them as far as the Jordan; the whole way was littered with garments and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned, and told the king.

Job 14:5

Since their days are determined, and the number of their months is known to you, and you have appointed the bounds that they cannot pass,

Job 34:14

If he should take back his spirit to himself, and gather to himself his breath,

Psalm 89:48

Who can live and never see death? Who can escape the power of Sheol? Selah

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall depart to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

Proverbs 12:3

No one finds security by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For no one can anticipate the time of disaster. Like fish taken in a cruel net, and like birds caught in a snare, so mortals are snared at a time of calamity, when it suddenly falls upon them.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;

Isaiah 28:18

Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through you will be beaten down by it.

Isaiah 47:10

You felt 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 am, and there is no one besides 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 he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for mortals to die once, and after that the judgment,