Ecclesiastes 8:8

As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Cross References (17)

  • Psalms 89:48 (12)

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

  • Job 14:5 (12)

    Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exc

  • Hebrews 9:27 (7)

    Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,

  • Psalms 49:6–9 (7)

    They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.

  • Psalms 9:17 (6)

    The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.

  • Proverbs 14:32 (6)

    The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.

  • Isaiah 28:15 (6)

    For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scou

  • Ecclesiastes 3:21 (6)

    Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

  • Isaiah 28:18 (4)

    Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge

  • Psalms 73:18–28 (4)

    Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

  • 2 Corinthians 13:4 (4)

    For He was indeed crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. For we are also weak in Him, yet by God’s power we

  • Job 34:14 (4)

    If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,

  • 1 Corinthians 15:43 (4)

    It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

  • Psalms 52:5–7 (3)

    Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will upro

  • 2 Samuel 14:14 (3)

    For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away

  • Deuteronomy 20:1–8 (2)

    When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of

  • 2 Kings 7:15 (2)

    And they tracked them as far as the Jordan, and indeed, the whole way was littered with the clothing and equipment the A