Job 38:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 9:13 : 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:
  • Ps 107:18 : 18 Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
  • Job 12:22 : 22 He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 [Seek him] that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name:
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.
  • Ps 23:4 : 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.
  • Ps 107:10 : 10 ¶ Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;
  • Ps 107:14 : 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

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