Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?
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?
A Conservative Version
Have the gates of death been revealed to thee? Or have thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?
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?
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 you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep? 17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you? 18 Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 9:13
Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;
Job 3:5
Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.
Psalm 107:18
They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.
Job 12:22
Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;
Psalm 107:10
Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
Psalm 107:14
He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.
Psalm 116:3
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
Amos 5:8
Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
Matthew 4:16
The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.