Job 38:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

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  • Ps 9:13 : 13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death:
  • Ps 107:18 : 18 Their soul abhors all manner of food; and they draw near to the gates of death.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.
  • Job 12:22 : 22 He reveals deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell took hold of me: I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 Seek 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:
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people which sat in darkness saw a great light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light has sprung up.
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your 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 broke their bands apart.

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