17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
Job 38:17
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Psalms 88:11–13
11 Can Your loving devotion be proclaimed in the grave, Your faithfulness in Abaddon ? 12 Will Your wonders be known in the darkness, or Your righteousness in the land of oblivion? 13 But to You, O LORD, I cry for help; in the morning my prayer comes before You.
Job 11:6–8
6 and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves. 7 Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty? 8 They are higher than the heavens—what ca…
Job 15:7–9
7 Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills? 8 Do you listen in on the council of God or limit wisdom to yourself? 9 What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
Job 38:21–23
21 Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great! 22 Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail, 23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
Sirach 1:5–7
5 The word of God most high is the fountain of wisdom; and her ways are everlasting commandments. (KJV) 6 To whom has the root of wisdom been revealed? Who has known her shrewd counsels? (WEB) 7 [Unto whom hath the knowledge of wisdom been made manifest? and who hath understood… (KJV)
Job 22:12–14
12 Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are! 13 Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness? 14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
Job 17:15–16
15 where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me? 16 Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
Psalms 89:47–49
47 Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men! 48 What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah 49 Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?
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