Job 38:17

And do the gates of death open to you for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw you?

LXX2012 (US English)

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 have you gone to the source of the sea, and walked in the tracks of the deep?

18And have you been instructed in the breadth of the whole earth under heaven? tell me now, what is the extent of it?

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Cross References

Job 3:5But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it;

Psalms 9:13Have mercy upon me, O Lord; look upon my affliction which I suffer of my enemies, you that lift me up from the gates of death: 1

Psalms 107:10Who will bring me into the fortified city? or who will guide me to Idumea? 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 →

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