Job 38:17

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Job 38:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

16 Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?

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

18 Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.

19 Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 9:13

Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,

Psalms 107:18

They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.

Psalms 116:3

The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

Job 3:5

May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.

Job 12:22

He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into light.

Psalms 23:4

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.

Psalms 107:10

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,

Psalms 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.

Amos 5:8

He 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—

Matthew 4:16

the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”