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 spirit of the sons of men goes upward and that the spirit of the beast goes downward to the earth?

For it is certain that we die and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God respect any person; yet he does devise means that his outcasts not be expelled from him.

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.

If he were to set his heart upon man and gather unto himself his spirit and his breath,

Those that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

What man is he that lives and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Sheol? Selah.

And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;

Power

it is sown in dishonour, it shall be raised with glory; it is sown in weakness, it shall be raised with power;

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. By which we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God in you.

Discharge

When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies and seest horses and chariots and a people more than thou, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD thy God is with thee, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And they went after them unto the Jordan; and, behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned and told the king.

Neither

The wicked shall be put into Sheol, all the Gentiles that forget God.

God shall likewise cast thee down for ever; he shall cut thee off and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; in desolation thou shalt cause them to fall.

For his wickedness shall the wicked be cast out, but the righteous in his death has hope.

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we are at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood we have hid ourselves:

General references

Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.