Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
spirit—"breath of life" (Ecclesiastes 3:19), as the words following require. Not "wind," as WEISS thinks (Proverbs 30:4). This verse naturally follows the subject of "times" and "judgment" (Ecclesiastes 8:6-7).
discharge—alluding to the liability to military service of all above twenty years old (Numbers 1:3), yet many were exempted (Deuteronomy 20:5-8). But in that war (death) there is no exemption.
those . . . given to—literally, the master of it. Wickedness can get money for the sinner, but cannot deliver him from the death, temporal and eternal, which is its penalty (Isaiah 28:15, Isaiah 28:18).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ecclesiastes 8:8:
Ecclesiastes 8:9
Isaiah 28:15
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