Commentaries:Adam Clarke
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Job 38:17
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? - Dost thou know in what the article of death consists? This is as inexplicable as the question, What is animal life?
The doors of the shallow of death? - tsalmaveth , the intermediate state, the openings into the place of separate spirits. Here two places are distinguished: maveth , death, and tsalmaveth , the shadow of death. It will not do to say, death is the privation of life, for what then would be the shadow of that privation?
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