Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
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In Context
7For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
Cross References
2 Samuel 14:14For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
Job 14:5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.
Psalms 89:48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Proverbs 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 8:7-9
The Certainty of Death. 6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when 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. Solomon had said ( v. 5 ) that a wise man's heart discerns time and judgment, that is, a man's… Read the whole commentary →