Ecclesiastes 8:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Neither hath he power - Rather: “and there is no power.” Compare Ecclesiastes 3:19.

No discharge ... - i. e., “No exemption from the final hour of struggle between life and death.”

Wickedness - Though the life of the wicked may be prolonged Ecclesiastes 7:15, yet wickedness itself has no inherent power to prolong that life.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

8 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 dischargeb in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.