Job 3:5 uses 'deep darkness' — the same phrase as here, linking Job's curse to God's question.

Job 10:22 earlier described the land of deep darkness — the very gates Job 38:17 asks about, linking Job's lament to God's challenge.

Job 12:22 says God brings deep darkness to light — related to the deep darkness mentioned here.

Job 28:3 mentions humans searching deep darkness for ore — contrasting human effort with the divine mystery of death's gates in Job 38:17.

Psalm 9:13 uses the same 'gates of death' phrase, reinforcing the imagery of death's realm.

Psalm 107:18 also speaks of drawing near to the 'gates of death', directly echoing this verse.

Matthew 16:18 promises that the gates of Hades will not prevail — the same gates Job 38:17 asks about, now overcome by Christ's church.

Amos 5:8 describes God turning deep darkness into morning — the same 'deep darkness' God questions Job about, showing His control over it.

Matthew 4:16 speaks of light dawning on those in shadow of death — the same darkness Job cannot see, fulfilled in Christ's coming.

Psalm 107:14 shows God delivering from darkness and shadow of death, echoing the gates of death in Job 38:17 — God has power over what Job cannot know.

Psalm 107:10 describes sitting in darkness and shadow of death — similar to the deep darkness and gates of death here.