Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
World English Bible Classic
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
16“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
18Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
Psalms 9:13Have mercy on me, LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death,
Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
Psalms 107:18Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.
Amos 5:8Seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface 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 →