Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
American Standard 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
16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?
18Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest 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 all that maketh black the day terrify it.
Psalms 9:13Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction [which I suffer] of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;
Psalms 107:10Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being 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 maketh 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 →