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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.(Ecclesiastes 8:5)
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.(Ecclesiastes 8:6)
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?(Ecclesiastes 8:7)
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.
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.(Ecclesiastes 8:9)
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.(Ecclesiastes 8:10)
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.(Ecclesiastes 8:11)

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Ecclesiastes 8:8 - Cross Reference

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. (Proverbs 14:32)
And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, 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. (2 Kings 7:15)
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we 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 have we hid ourselves: (Isaiah 28:15)
When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. (Deuteronomy 20:1)
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. (Psalm 73:18)
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? (Ecclesiastes 3:21)
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah. (Psalm 52:5)
If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; (Job 34:14)
It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: (1 Corinthians 15:43)
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. (Psalm 9:17)
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. (2 Corinthians 13:4)
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; (Psalm 49:6)
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. (Isaiah 28:18)
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah. (Psalm 89:48)
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27)
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him. (2 Samuel 14:14)
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; (Job 14:5)