🌪️WEB · Job 38:17
What does Job 38:17 mean?
"Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?"
— Job 38:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
It is changed as clay under the seal, and presented as a garment.
From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
“Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have you comprehended the earth in its width? Declare, if you know it all.
“What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
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