Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been opened unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Updated King James 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 entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in the search of the depth?
18Have you perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if you know it all.
Cross References
Job 3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Psalms 9:13Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:
Psalms 107:10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
Psalms 107:18Their soul detests all manner of food; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Amos 5:8Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon 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 →