Ecclesiastes 8:8
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As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
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Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?
For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
If He were to set His heart to it and withdraw His Spirit and breath,
Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
For He was indeed crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. And though we are weak in Him, yet by God’s power we will live with Him to serve you.