Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ecclesiastes 8:8:
Genesis 4:1-16
Ecclesiastes 8:12
Zephaniah 1:14
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