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Ecclesiastes 8:8

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8No one has authority over the windA to restrain it,af and there is no authority over the day of death;ag no one is discharged during battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

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Footnotes

  1. AOr life-breath

Cross references

  1. afPs 148:8; Pr 30:4; Mk 4:39
  2. agJn 10:18; 2Tm 1:10

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

No man has power to retain the spirit, or power over the day of death. There is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

As no one has power over the wind to contain it,

so no one has power over the time of their death.

As no one is discharged in time of war,

so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

NLTNew Living Translation

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 the wicked.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind,

so also no one can control the day of his death.

Just as no one is discharged in time of war,

so wickedness will not deliver the wicked.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.