Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been opened to you, and have you seen the doors of darkness?
Catholic Public Domain 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
18Have you considered the breadth of the earth? If you know all things, reveal them to me.
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death obscure it, let a fog overtake it, and let it be enveloped in bitterness.
Psalms 9:13Because of those who yearned for their blood, he has remembered them. He has not forgotten the cry of the poor.
Psalms 107:10Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. I will extend my shoe in Idumea; the foreigners have become my friends.
Amos 5:8The Maker of Arcturus and Orion, who turns darkness into daybreak and who changes day into night; who calls forth the waters of the sea and who pours 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 →