Job 38:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Seen. The second clause heightens the thought in the first. Man during life does not even "see" the gates of the realm of the dead ("death," Job 10:21), much less are they 'opened' to him. But those are "naked before God" (Job 26:6).

Job 38:17

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