Job 38:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 9:13 : 13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;
  • Ps 107:18 : 18 They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
  • Job 12:22 : 22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.
  • Ps 107:10 : 10 Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
  • Ps 107:14 : 14 He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

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    18Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

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    20So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

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  • Job 38:12-13
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    12Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

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  • Job 22:10-11
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    10For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.

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    6The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • Job 38:4
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    4Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

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  • Job 12:22
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    4Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?

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  • Job 14:13-14
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    13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

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  • Job 28:3
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