Job 38:17
Have you been shown where the gates of death are? Have you seen the gates of utter darkness?
Free Bible 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 you entered the sources of the sea? Have you explored their hidden depths?
18Do you know how far the earth extends? Tell me if you know all this!
Cross References
Job 3:5Take it back, darkness and death-shadow. A black cloud should overshadow it. It should be as terrifying as the darkness of an eclipse during the day.
Psalms 9:13Be gracious to me, Lord! Look at how my enemies are persecuting me! Grab me back from the gates of death,
Psalms 107:10Some sat in complete darkness, prisoners of misery and bound with iron chains,
Psalms 107:18They didn't want to eat; they were at death's door.
Amos 5:8The One who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the darkness into morning, and daytime into night, who calls for the water of the seas, and pours it down as rain upon 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 →