Ecclesiastes 8:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

No man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die, we are like water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; but God will not take away the life of him who devises means not to keep his banished one an outcast.

2 Kings 7:15

So they went after them as far as the Jordan; and lo, all the way was littered with garments and equipment which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.

Job 14:5

Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with thee, and thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,

Job 34:14

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

Psalm 89:48

What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Psalm 9:17

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

Proverbs 12:3

A man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is overthrown through his evil-doing, but the righteous finds refuge through his integrity.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For man does not know his time. Like fish which are taken in an evil net, and like birds which are caught in a snare, so the sons of men are snared at an evil time, 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 shall live with him by the power of God.

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment,