John Trapp on Job 38:17

Verſe 17. Have the gates of Death been opened unto thee?] ſc. That thou ſhouldeſt know when, how, and of what Diſeaſe every man ſhall die: together with the ſtate and condition of the dead.

Or haſt thou ſeen the doers of the ſhadow of death?] No, nor any man living hath ever ſeen thoſe dark and diſmal receptacles of the dead, called here, the ſhadow of death; that is, ſo dreadful, that they were enough to ſtrike a man dead.