Ecclesiastes 8:8

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.

Is no

Hebrews 9:27

Power

1 Corinthians 15:43

2 Corinthians 13:4

Discharge

Deuteronomy 20:1

2 Kings 7:15

Neither

Isaiah 28:15

General references

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Bible References

Is no

Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?

For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but plans ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.

“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You;
And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass.

“If He should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath,

Even those who trust in their wealth
And boast in the abundance of their riches?

What man can live and not see death?
Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

Power

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

For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.

Discharge

“When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you.

They went after them to the Jordan, and behold, all the way was full of clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. Then the messengers returned and told the king.

Neither

The wicked will

return to Sheol,

Even all the nations who forget God.

But God will break you down forever;

He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to

destruction.

The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing,
But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we have made a pact.

The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by,

For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception.”

General references

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher, “all is vanity!”