The "gates of death" were at the edge of the world, where earth and sky meet. "The springs of the sea", the "depth", that is the underground water where the seawater was conceived as originating from. Sumerians and Babylonians called it abzu. In Ancient Near Eastern cosmology there was an ocean deep under earth. You did not answer me: why is it significant, that Job thinks that earth is suspended in space, but not, that Elihu thinks, that the sky is like molten glass? In both cases it is just humans who talk, not "god". Some make a religious argument for a flat Earth, stating that the Bible tells us the. God asks here, "Have you been at the most remote places of the world?" Flat Earthers believe the Earth is shaped like a hockey puck with a dome above it called a firmament, which. Because of such allusions scholars think that Job was written in Babylonia in the time of the exile. Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? Job is the work of a 6th century BC poet, it is not really "god" who speaks here to us. There are no future reverences in the bible that only 21st century people can understand. Or what about this one: Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion.
Or this: Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares.
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. Obviously Job 26:7 is a poetic personification, nothing more, like this one:
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