Ayub 38:17

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Apakah pintu gerbang maut tersingkap bagimu, atau pernahkah engkau melihat pintu gerbang kelam pekat?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Apakah pintu gerbang maut tersingkap bagimu, atau pernahkah engkau melihat pintu gerbang kelam pekat?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sudahkah ditunjuk kepadamu segala pintu maut; sudahkah engkau melihat segala pintu bayang-bayang maut?

Contextual Overview

¹² Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place, ¹³ That it might take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it. ¹⁴ They are fashioned as is the clay with the seale, and all stand vp as a garment. ¹⁵ The vngodly shall be disapointed of their light, and the arme of the proude shalbe broken. ¹⁶ Camest thou euer into the grounde of the sea, or walkedst in the lowe corners of the deepe? ¹⁷ Haue the gates of death ben opened vnto thee? or hast thou seene the doores of the shadowe of death? ¹⁸ Hast thou also perceaued how brode the earth is? If thou hast knowledge of all this: ¹⁹ Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse? ²⁰ That thou shouldest receaue it in the boundes thereof, and know the pathes to their houses. ²¹ Knewest thou afore thou wast borne how olde thou shouldest be?

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

Genesis 38:20
And Iudas sent the kyd by his friende Adulam, for to receaue his pledge againe from the womans hand: but he founde her not.

Genesis 38:24
And it came to passe, after three monethes one tolde Iuda, saying: Thamar thy daughter in lawe hath played the harlot, and with playing the harlot is become great with chylde. And Iuda sayde: Bryng her foorth, that she may be brent.

Genesis 38:25
And when they brought her foorth, she sent to her father in lawe, saying: By the man vnto whom these thynges [pertaine] am I with chylde: And saide also, Loke I pray thee whose are these, this seale, and this bracelet, and this staffe.

Proverbs 20:16
Take his garment that is suretie for a straunger: and take a pledge of hym for the vnknowen sake.

Ezekiel 16:33
Giftes are geuen to all other whores: but thou geuest rewardes vnto all thy louers, & rewardest them to come vnto thee on euery side for thy fornication.

Luke 16:8
And the Lord commended the vniuste stewarde, because he had done wisely. For the chyldren of this worlde are in their nation, wiser then the chyldren of lyght.

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?