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The LORD Challenges Job

Job 38:17

In 11 translations

BSB
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
KJV
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
WEB
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
ASV
Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
LSV
Were the gates of death revealed to you? And do you see the gates of death-shade?
YLT
Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?
DBY
Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
DRC
Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?
GNV
Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?
JPS
Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
LXXE
And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הֲנִגְל֣וּ לְ֭ךָ שַׁעֲרֵי־מָ֑וֶת וְשַׁעֲרֵ֖י צַלְמָ֣וֶת תִּרְאֶֽה׃
LXX-Br
Ἀνοίγονται δέ σοι φόβῳ πύλαι θανάτου, πυλωροὶ δὲ ᾅδου ἰδόντες σε ἔπτηξαν;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 9:13Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,
  • Psalms 107:18They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
  • Job 3:5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
  • Psalms 23:4Even 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.
  • Job 12:22He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.
  • Psalms 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
  • Psalms 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
  • Amos 5:8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—
  • Psalms 116:3The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
  • Matthew 4:16the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”

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