the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Job 38:17
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Have the gates of death been revealed to you?Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Have the gates of death been opened to you? Have you seen the gates of the deep darkness?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
"Have the gates of death been revealed to you, Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
"Have the gates of death been revealed to you, And have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the gates of the shadowe of death?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you,Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have you seen the gate to the world of the dead?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, the gates of death-like darkness?
Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Has anyone shown you the gates to the world of the dead? Have you ever seen those gates that lead to the dark place of death?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of deep shadow?
Have death's gates been opened to you; or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto the or hast thou sene the dore of euerlastige treasure?
Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Haue the gates of death bene opened vnto thee? Or hast thou seene the doores of the shadow of death?
Haue the gates of death ben opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadowe of death?
And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; and did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?
Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Whether the yatis of deeth ben openyd to thee, and `siest thou the derk doris?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Have the gates of death been opened to thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shades of death?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Do you know where the gates of death are located? Have you seen the gates of utter gloom?
Have the gates of death been shown to you? Or have you seen the gates of the deep darkness?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death-shade, couldst thou descry?
Have the gates of death been opened to thee, and hast thou seen the darksome doors?
Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?
"Have the gates of death been revealed to you, Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the gates: Psalms 9:13, Psalms 107:18, Psalms 116:3
the shadow: Job 3:5, Job 12:22, Psalms 23:4, Psalms 107:10, Psalms 107:14, Amos 5:8, Matthew 4:16
Reciprocal: Job 10:22 - the shadow of death Job 28:3 - the stones Matthew 16:18 - and the Hebrews 4:13 - naked
Cross-References
Judah sent his friend Hirah to take the goat and get back from the woman the articles he had pledged, but Hirah could not find her.
About three months later someone told Judah, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has been acting like a whore, and now she is pregnant." Judah ordered, "Take her out and burn her to death."
As she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law: "I am pregnant by the man who owns these things. Look at them and see whose they are—this seal with its cord and this walking stick."
Anyone stupid enough to promise to be responsible for a stranger's debts ought to have their own property held to guarantee payment.
A prostitute is paid, but you gave presents to all your lovers and bribed them to come from everywhere to sleep with you.
As a result the master of this dishonest manager praised him for doing such a shrewd thing; because the people of this world are much more shrewd in handling their affairs than the people who belong to the light."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?.... Meaning not by which death has entered into the world, and which have been the causes and occasion of it; as the sin of man, the appointment of God, and various providences, calamities and diseases; but by which men enter into the state of the dead. Men know not experimentally what death is, nor in what way they shall go out of the world, nor at what time, nor in what place; they know not what the state of the dead is, there is no correspondence between them and the living; they do not know either what they enjoy or endure, or who precisely and with certainty are in the separate abodes of bliss or misery; the gates of these dark and invisible regions to us have never been thrown open, for mortals to look into them;
or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? the same thing in other words; the Targum and Jarchi interpret this of hell.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee - That is, the gates of the world where death reigns; or the gates that lead to the abodes of the dead. The allusion here is to “Sheol,” or “Hades,” the dark abodes of the dead. This was supposed to be beneath the ground, and was entered by the grave, and was inclosed by gates and bars; see the notes at Job 10:21-22. The transition from the reference to the bottom of the sea to the regions of the dead was natural, and the mind is carried forward to a subject further beyond the ken of mortals than even the unfathomable depths of the ocean. The idea is, that God saw all that occurred in that dark world beneath us, where the dead were congregated, and that his vast superiority to man was evinced by his being able thus to penetrate into, and survey those hidden regions. It is common in the Classical writers to represent those regions as entered by gates. Thus, Lucretius, i. 1105,
- Haec rebus erit para janua letl,
Hae se turba foras dabit omnis materai.
- “The doors of death are ope,
And the vast whole unbounded ruin whelms.”
Good.
So Virgil, Aeneid ii. 661,
- Pater isti janua leto,
“The door of death stands open.”
Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? - The doors which lead down to the gloomy realms where death spreads its dismal shades. This expression is more emphatic than the former, for the word צלמות tsalmâveth “shadow of death,” is more intensive in its meaning than the word מות mâveth, “death.” There is the superadded idea of a deep and dismal shadow; of profound and gloomy darkness; see the word explained in the notes at Job 3:5; compare Job 10:21-22. Man was unable to penetrate those gloomy abodes and to reveal what was there; but God saw all with the clearness of noon-day.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 38:17. Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? — Dost thou know in what the article of death consists? This is as inexplicable as the question, What is animal life?
The doors of the shallow of death? — צלמות tsalmaveth, the intermediate state, the openings into the place of separate spirits. Here two places are distinguished: מות maveth, death, and צלמות tsalmaveth, the shadow of death. It will not do to say, death is the privation of life, for what then would be the shadow of that privation?
