Job 38:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? Or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 9:13 : 13 Haue mercie vpon mee, O Lorde: consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate mee, thou that liftest me vp from the gates of death,
  • Ps 107:18 : 18 Their soule abhorreth al meat, and they are brought to deaths doore.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.
  • Job 12:22 : 22 He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 When the snares of death copassed me, and the griefes of the graue caught me: when I founde trouble and sorowe.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 He maketh Pleiades, and Orion, and he turneth the shadowe of death into the morning, and he maketh the day darke as night: he calleth the waters of the sea, and powreth them out vpon the open earth: the Lord is his Name.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people which sate in darkenes, sawe great light: and to them which sate in the region, and shadowe of death, light is risen vp.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Yea, though I should walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I will feare no euill: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staffe, they comfort me.
  • Ps 107:10 : 10 They that dwell in darkenesse and in the shadowe of death, being bounde in miserie and yron,
  • Ps 107:14 : 14 He brought them out of darkenes, and out of the shadowe of death, and brake their bandes asunder.

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  • 16 Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? Or hast thou walked to seeke out the depth?

  • Job 38:18-22
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    18 Hast thou perceiued the breadth of the earth? Tell if thou knowest all this.

    19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? And where is the place of darkenesse,

    20 That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?

    21 Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?

    22 Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seene the treasures of ye haile,

  • 8 Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?

  • 3 And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.

  • 8 Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:

  • 10 I saide in the cutting off of my dayes, I shall goe to the gates of the graue: I am depriued of the residue of my yeeres.

  • 15 Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?

  • Job 38:12-13
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    12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy dayes? Hast thou caused the morning to knowe his place,

    13 That it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

  • Job 22:10-11
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    10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee:

    11 Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, & abundance of waters shal couer thee.

  • 6 The sorowes of the graue compassed mee about: the snares of death ouertooke mee.

  • 4 Where wast thou when I layd the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast vnderstanding,

  • Ps 18:4-5
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    4 The sorowes of death compassed me, and the floods of wickednes made me afraide.

    5 The sorowes of the graue haue compassed me about: the snares of death ouertooke me.

  • 8 The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hel, how canst thou know it?

  • Ps 88:10-11
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    10 Wilt thou shewe a miracle to the dead? or shall the dead rise and prayse thee? Selah.

    11 Shall thy louing kindenes be declared in the graue? or thy faithfulnes in destruction?

  • 22 He discouereth the deepe places from their darkenesse, and bringeth foorth the shadowe of death to light.

  • 4 Hast thou carnall eyes? Or doest thou see as man seeth?

  • 4 To whom doest thou declare these words? or whose spirit commeth out of thee?

  • 17 But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.

  • 10 When I stablished my commandement vpon it, and set barres and doores,

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, and remember me.

    14 If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the dayes of mine appointed time will I waite, till my changing shall come.

  • 13 That thou answerest to God at thy pleasure, and bringest such wordes out of thy mouth?

  • 3 God putteth an end to darkenesse, and he tryeth the perfection of all things: he setteth a bond of darkenesse, and of the shadowe of death.

  • Job 38:33-34
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    33 Knowest thou the course of heauen, or canst thou set the rule thereof in the earth?

    34 Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?

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    21 Before I goe and shall not returne, euen to the land of darkenesse and shadow of death:

    22 Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.

  • 18 Hast thou stretched out the heaues, which are strong, and as a molten glasse?

  • 13 Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shal make my bed in the darke.

  • 6 He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.

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    18 The Lorde hath chastened me sore, but he hath not deliuered me to death.

    19 Open ye vnto me the gates of righteousnes, that I may goe into them, & praise the Lord.

  • 18 Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!

  • 6 I went downe to the bottome of the moutaines: the earth with her barres was about me for euer, yet hast thou brought vp my life from the pit, O Lorde my God.

  • 3 When the snares of death copassed me, and the griefes of the graue caught me: when I founde trouble and sorowe.

  • 8 If I ascende into heauen, thou art there: if I lye downe in hell, thou art there.

  • 23 Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.

  • 19 Albeit thou hast smitten vs downe into the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadow of death.

  • 18 For the graue cannot confesse thee: death cannot praise thee: they that goe downe into the pit, cannot hope for thy trueth.

  • 24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?

  • 1 My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, & the graue is readie for me.

  • 10 Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.