Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Darby Translation

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

16Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? and hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

18Hath thine understanding compassed the breadths of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.

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Cross References

Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

Psalms 9:13Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death:

Psalms 107:10Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,

Psalms 107:18Their soul abhorreth all manner of food, and they draw near unto the gates of death:

Amos 5:8[seek him] that made the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah 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 →

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