Job 38:17

Yahweh Interrogates Job

¹⁶ “Have you entered into the springs of the sea
Or walked in the recesses of the deep?
¹⁷ “Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
¹⁸ “Have you understood the expanse of the earth?
Tell Me, if you know all this.

Gates of Death

Shadow of Death

Deep Darkness

Deep Shadow

Job

Psalm 9:13

Be gracious to me, O Lord;
See my affliction from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,

Job 3:5

“Let darkness and black gloom claim it;
Let a cloud settle on it;
Let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Psalm 107:18

Their soul abhorred all kinds of food,
And they drew near to the gates of death.

Job 12:22

“He reveals mysteries from the darkness
And brings the deep darkness into light.

Psalm 23:4

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

Psalm 107:10

There were those who dwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death,
Prisoners in misery and chains,

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death
And broke their bands apart.

Psalm 116:3

The cords of death encompassed me
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.

Amos 5:8

He who made the Pleiades and Orion
And changes deep darkness into morning,
Who also darkens day into night,
Who calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the surface of the earth,
The Lord is His name.

Matthew 4:16

“The people who were sitting in darkness saw a great Light,
And those who were sitting in the land and shadow of death,
Upon them a Light dawned.”