Job 38:17
Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
Bible in Basic English
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 you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?
18Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.
Cross References
Job 3:5Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
Psalms 9:13\9:12\When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.
Psalms 107:10Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
Psalms 107:18They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.
Amos 5:8Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the 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 →