Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
New American Standard Bible
Or have you seen the gates of
King James Version
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Holman Bible
Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
International Standard Version
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?
American Standard Version
Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Amplified
“Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
Bible in Basic English
Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
Darby Translation
Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Julia Smith Translation
Were the gates of death uncovered to thee? and shalt thou see the gates of the shadow of death?
King James 2000
Have the gates of death been revealed unto you? or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Have [the] gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen [the] gates of deep shadow?
Modern King James verseion
Have the gates of death been opened to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Have the gates of death been open unto thee, or hast thou seen the door of everlasting treasure?
NET Bible
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
New Heart English Bible
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
The Emphasized Bible
Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee? And, the gates of the death-shade, couldst thou descry?
Webster
Have the gates of death been opened to thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shades of death?
World English Bible
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Youngs Literal Translation
Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?
Interlinear
Galah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
16 Have thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or have thou walked in the recesses of the deep? 17 Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death? 18 Have thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou know it all.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 9:13
Have mercy upon me, O LORD. Behold my affliction from those who hate me, thou who lifts me up from the gates of death
Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell upon it. Let blackness come upon it.
Psalm 107:18
Their soul abhors all manner of food, and they draw near to the gates of death.
Job 12:22
He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.
Psalm 23:4
Yea, tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou are with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 107:10
[even] those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,
Psalm 107:14
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds apart.
Psalm 116:3
The cords of death encompassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Amos 5:8
[seek him] who makes the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth (LORD is his name),
Matthew 4:16
the people who dwell in darkness saw a great light, and to those who dwell in the region and shadow of death, light sprang up to them.