Job 38:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 9:13 : 13 Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;
  • Ps 107:18 : 18 Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
  • Job 12:22 : 22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
  • Ps 116:3 : 3 The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned."
  • Ps 23:4 : 4 Even 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 Some sat 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 bonds in sunder.

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