Job 38:17

Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death-shade, couldst thou descry?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

16Hast thou entered as far as the springs of the sea? Or, through the secret recesses of the resounding deep, hast thou wandered?

18Hast thou well considered, even the breadths of the earth? Tell—if thou knowest it all!

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Cross References

Job 3:5Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day’s dark eclipse cause it terror:

Psalms 9:13Show me favour, O Yahweh! Behold my humiliation due to them who hate me, Lift me on high out of the gates of death;

Psalms 107:10The dwellers in darkness and death-shade, bound with oppression and iron;

Psalms 107:18All manner of food, their soul abhorreth, and so they draw near unto the gates of death,

Amos 5:8[Seek him] who made the Cluster and the Giant, and turneth, into morning, the shadow of death, and who, day into night, doth darken, Him who calleth to the waters of the sea, and poureth them out on the face of the land, Yahweh, 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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