Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
In Context
16Have thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or have thou walked in the recesses of the deep?
18Have thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou know it all.
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.
Psalms 9:13Have mercy upon me, O LORD. Behold my affliction from those who hate me, thou who lifts me up from the gates of death
Psalms 107:10[even] those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
Psalms 107:18Their soul abhors all manner of food, and they draw near to the gates of death.
Amos 5:8[seek him] who makes the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth (LORD is his name),
Matthew Henry on Job 38:13-25
Works of God. ( b. c. 1520.) 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?… Read the whole commentary →