Job 38:17
Were the gates of death revealed to you? And do you see the gates of death-shade?
Literal 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
16Have you come to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep || Have you walked up and down?
18You have understanding, || Even to the broad places of earth! Declare—if you have known it all.
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, || Let a cloud dwell on it, || Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days.
Psalms 9:13Favor me, O YHWH, || See my affliction by those hating me, || You who lift me up from the gates of death,
Psalms 107:10Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, || Prisoners of affliction and of iron,
Psalms 107:18Their soul detests all food, || And they come near to the gates of death,
Amos 5:8The Maker of the Pleiades and Orion, || And He who is turning death-shade to the morning—And He has made day [as] dark [as] night—Who is calling to the waters of the sea, || And pours them on the face of the earth, || YHWH [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 →