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Job 38:17 — Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

the gates		Psa 9:13; Psa 107:18; Psa 116:3
the shadow		Job 3:5; Job 12:22; Psa 23:4; Psa 107:10,14; Amo 5:8; Mat 4:16

Correlating Passages

the gates

	Psa 9:13	Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble [which I suffer] of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
	Psa 107:18	Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
	Psa 116:3	The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

the shadow

	Job 3:5	Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
	Job 12:22	He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
	Psa 23:4	Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou [art] with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
	Psa 107:10	Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;
	Psa 107:14	He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
	Amo 5:8	[Seek him] that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name:
	Mat 4:16	The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 38:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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