Job 38:17
And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; 1 And did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee? 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
16Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, 1 And walked in the tracks of the deep? 1
Cross References
Job 3:5But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; 1 Let blackness come upon it; 1
Psalms 9:13For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: 1 He has not forgotten the supplication of the poor. 1
Psalms 107:10Moab is the caldron of my hope; 1 Over Edom will I cast my sandal; 1 The Philistines are made subject to me. 1
Amos 5:8who makes all things, and changes them, and turns darkness into the morning, and darkens the day into night: who calls for the water of the sea, and pours it out on 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 →