Job 38:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Job 38:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 9:13
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
Psalms 107:18
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Psalms 107:14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Psalms 23:4
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Blessing Cities Continents Dead (people)Death Dying

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-24)

The Lord here proceeds to ask Job many puzzling questions, to convince him of his ignorance, and so to shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we will but try ourselves with such interrogatories as these, we shall soon be brought to own that what we know is nothing in comparison with what we know not. Job is here challenged to give an account of six things:— I. Of the springs of the morn…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. seen--The second clause heightens the thought in the first. Man during life does not even “see” the gates of the realm of the dead (“death,” Job 10:21); much less are they “opened” to him. But those are “naked before God” (Job 26:6).