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 whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth?

We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.

Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,

If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath,

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

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

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

Power

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

For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.

Discharge

"When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

So they went after them as far as the Jordan, and behold, all the way was littered with garments and equipment that the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.

Neither

The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.

The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.

Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement, when the overwhelming whip passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter";

General references

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.