Job 17 Footnotes
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17:16 Some scholars suggest that Job’s remarks indicate a belief in a Mesopotamian underworld into which people enter via a series of gates, but this interpretation is unfounded. The term “gates” is a metaphor for entrance into the state of death or the grave. Similar expressions are found in 38:17; Ps 9:13; 107:18; Is 38:10; and Mt 16:18.