Ecclesiastes 8:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9. Some render "wind" and refer to Ecclesiastes 11:5.Proverbs 8:30; Proverbs 8:4.

discharge in that war. no furlough in the battle [of life].

wickedness. Hebrew. ra'a'. App-44. Perhaps here. cunning: no cunning will save the wicked.

those that are given to it. its possessors.

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.