Ecclesiastes 8:8 · KJV
“{There is} no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither {hath he} power in the day of death: and {there is} no discharge in {that} war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. {discharge: or, casting off weapons}”
— Ecclesiastes 8:8
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? {when...: or, how it shall be?}
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: {there is} a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
Ecclesiastes 8 — Context
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man {is} great upon him.
7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? {when...: or, how it shall be?}
8{There is} no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither {hath he} power in the day of death: and {there is} no discharge in {that} war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. {discharge: or, casting off weapons}
9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: {there is} a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this {is} also vanity.
Cross References
Psalms 89:48
What man {is he that} liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Job 14:5
Seeing his days {are} determined, the number of his months {are} with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Psalms 49:6-9
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? {of man: Heb. of the sons of man} {goeth upward: Heb. is ascending, etc}
Psalms 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, {and} all the nations that forget God.
Isaiah 28:15
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
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