Ecclesiastes 8:8 Cross References
Ecclesiastes 8:8
8: None of us can hold back our spirit from departing. None of us has the power to prevent the day of our death. There is no escaping that obligation, that dark battle. And in the face of death, wickedness will certainly not rescue those who practice it.
Job 14:5
- You have decided the length of our lives. You know how many months we will live, and we are not given a minute longer.
Hebrews 9:27
- And just as it is destined that each person dies only once and after that comes judgment,
Isaiah 28:15
- You boast that you have struck a bargain to avoid death and have made a deal to dodge the grave. You say, "The Assyrians can never touch us, for we have built a strong refuge made of lies and deception."
Proverbs 14:32
- The wicked are crushed by their sins, but the godly have a refuge when they die.
Psalms 9:17
- The wicked will go down to the grave. This is the fate of all the nations who ignore God.
Isaiah 28:18
- I will cancel the bargain you made to avoid death, and I will overturn your deal to dodge the grave. When the terrible enemy floods in, you will be trampled into the ground.
Psalms 89:48
- No one can live forever; all will die. No one can escape the power of the grave.
Psalms 49:6
- They trust in their wealth and boast of great riches.
- Yet they cannot redeem themselves from death by paying a ransom to God.
- Redemption does not come so easily, for no one can ever pay enough
- to live forever and never see the grave.
2 Corinthians 13:4
- Although he died on the cross in weakness, he now lives by the mighty power of God. We, too, are weak, but we live in him and have God's power--the power we use in dealing with you.
Psalms 73:18
- Truly, you put them on a slippery path and send them sliding over the cliff to destruction.
- In an instant they are destroyed, swept away by terrors.
- Their present life is only a dream that is gone when they awake. When you arise, O Lord, you will make them vanish from this life.
- Then I realized how bitter I had become, how pained I had been by all I had seen.
- I was so foolish and ignorant--I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you.
1 Corinthians 15:43
- Our bodies now disappoint us, but when they are raised, they will be full of glory. They are weak now, but when they are raised, they will be full of power.
Psalms 52:5
- But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and drag you from the land of the living.
- The righteous will see it and be amazed. They will laugh and say,
- "Look what happens to mighty warriors who do not trust in God. They trust their wealth instead and grow more and more bold in their wickedness."
2 Samuel 14:14
- All of us must die eventually. Our lives are like water spilled out on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. That is why God tries to bring us back when we have been separated from him. He does not sweep away the lives of those he cares about--and neither should you!
Ecclesiastes 3:21
- For who can prove that the human spirit goes upward and the spirit of animals goes downward into the earth?
Job 34:14
- If God were to take back his spirit and withdraw his breath,
2 Kings 7:15
- They went all the way to the Jordan River, following a trail of clothing and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their mad rush to escape. The scouts returned and told the king about it.
Deuteronomy 20:1
- "When you go out to fight your enemies and you face horses and chariots and an army greater than your own, do not be afraid. The LORD your God, who brought you safely out of Egypt, is with you!
- Before you go into battle, the priest will come forward to speak with the troops.
- He will say, `Listen to me, all you men of Israel! Do not be afraid as you go out to fight today! Do not lose heart or panic.
- For the LORD your God is going with you! He will fight for you against your enemies, and he will give you victory!'
- "Then the officers of the army will address the troops and say, `Has anyone just built a new house but not yet dedicated it? If so, go home! You might be killed in the battle, and someone else would dedicate your house!