Ecclesiastes 8:8

Young's Literal Translation 1898

There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:14

for we do surely die, and [are] as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.

2 Kings 7:15

And they go after them unto the Jordan, and lo, all the way is full of garments and vessels that the Aramaeans have cast away in their haste, and the messengers turn back and declare to the king.

Job 14:5

If determined are his days, The number of his months [are] with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

Job 34:14

If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.

Psalm 89:48

Who [is] the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.

Proverbs 12:3

A man is not established by wickedness, And the root of the righteous is not moved.

Proverbs 14:32

In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death [is] the righteous.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 8:13

And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these [are] the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

Isaiah 28:15

Because ye have said: ‘We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.’

Isaiah 28:18

And disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.

Isaiah 47:10

And thou art confident in thy wickedness, Thou hast said, ‘There is none seeing me,’ Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, It is turning thee back, And thou sayest in thy heart, ‘I [am], and none else.’

1 Corinthians 15:43

it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

2 Corinthians 13:4

for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

Hebrews 9:27

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this — judgment,