Ecclesiastes 8:8

Just as no human being has control over the wind to restrain it, so also no human being has control over the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged during war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Job 14:5

Since his days have been determined, the number of his months is known to you. You've set his limit and he cannot exceed it.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you said: "We have entered into a covenant with death, and we have an agreement with Sheol, so when the overwhelming scourge makes its choice, it cannot reach us, since we have made lies our refuge and have concealed ourselves inside falsehood,'

Deuteronomy 20:1-8

"When you go to war against your enemies and observe more horses, chariots, and soldiers than you have, don't be afraid of them, for the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt is with you.

2 Samuel 14:14

After all, even though we all die, and we're all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn't take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged.

2 Kings 7:15

They went out in the direction of the Jordan River, and the entire roadway was strewn with clothes and equipment that the Arameans had abandoned in their haste to leave! So the messengers returned and reported to the king.

Job 34:14

If he were to decide to do so, that is, to take back to himself his spirit and breath of life,

Psalm 9:17

The wicked will turn back to where the dead are all the nations that have forgotten God.

Psalm 49:6-9

those who put confidence in their wealth and boast about their great riches?

Psalm 52:5-7

But God will tear you down forever; he will take you away, even snatching you out of your tent! He will uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude

Psalm 73:18-28

You have certainly set them in slippery places; you will make them fall to their ruin.

Psalm 89:48

What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but the righteous person has a place of safety in death.

Ecclesiastes 3:21

Who knows whether the spirit of human beings ascends, and whether the spirit of animals descends to the earth?

Isaiah 28:18

"Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be trampled by it.

1 Corinthians 15:43

The body is planted in a state of dishonor but is raised in a state of splendor. It is planted in weakness but is raised in power.

2 Corinthians 13:4

Though he was crucified in weakness, he lives by God's power. We are weak with him, but by God's power we will live for you.

Hebrews 9:27

Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

Is no

Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knows whether the spirit of human beings ascends, and whether the spirit of animals descends to the earth?
2 Samuel 14:14
After all, even though we all die, and we're all like water being spilled on the ground that cannot be recovered, nevertheless God doesn't take away life, but carries out his plans so as not to cast away permanently from him those who are presently estranged.
Job 14:5
Since his days have been determined, the number of his months is known to you. You've set his limit and he cannot exceed it.
Job 34:14
If he were to decide to do so, that is, to take back to himself his spirit and breath of life,
Psalm 49:6
those who put confidence in their wealth and boast about their great riches?
Psalm 89:48
What valiant man can live and not see death? Who can deliver himself from the power of Sheol. Interlude
Hebrews 9:27
Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

Power

1 Corinthians 15:43
The body is planted in a state of dishonor but is raised in a state of splendor. It is planted in weakness but is raised in power.
2 Corinthians 13:4
Though he was crucified in weakness, he lives by God's power. We are weak with him, but by God's power we will live for you.

Discharge

Deuteronomy 20:1
"When you go to war against your enemies and observe more horses, chariots, and soldiers than you have, don't be afraid of them, for the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt is with you.
2 Kings 7:15
They went out in the direction of the Jordan River, and the entire roadway was strewn with clothes and equipment that the Arameans had abandoned in their haste to leave! So the messengers returned and reported to the king.

Neither

Psalm 9:17
The wicked will turn back to where the dead are all the nations that have forgotten God.
Psalm 52:5
But God will tear you down forever; he will take you away, even snatching you out of your tent! He will uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude
Psalm 73:18
You have certainly set them in slippery places; you will make them fall to their ruin.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but the righteous person has a place of safety in death.
Isaiah 28:15
Because you said: "We have entered into a covenant with death, and we have an agreement with Sheol, so when the overwhelming scourge makes its choice, it cannot reach us, since we have made lies our refuge and have concealed ourselves inside falsehood,'

General references

Ecclesiastes 12:8
"Utterly pointless," says the Teacher. "Everything is pointless."

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