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For in death there is no remembrance of you.
    Who praises you in Sheol?[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:6 A motive for God to preserve the psalmist from death: in the shadowy world of the dead no one offers you praise. Sheol is the biblical term for the underworld where the insubstantial souls of dead human beings dwelt. It was similar to the Hades of Greek and Latin literature. In the second century B.C., biblical books begin to speak positively of life with God after death (Dn 12:1–3; Wis 3).

I am worn out(A) from my groaning.(B)

All night long I flood my bed with weeping(C)
    and drench my couch with tears.(D)

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10 [a]“What gain is there from my lifeblood,
    from my going down to the grave?
Does dust give you thanks
    or declare your faithfulness?

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Footnotes

  1. 30:10 In the stillness of Sheol no one gives you praise; let me live and be among your worshipers, cf. Ps 6:6; 88:11–13; 115:17; Is 38:18.

10 Hear,(A) Lord, and be merciful to me;(B)
    Lord, be my help.(C)

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IV

18 I am very near to falling;
    my wounds are with me always.

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18 I confess my iniquity;(A)
    I am troubled by my sin.

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17 [a]The dead do not praise the Lord,
    not all those go down into silence.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 115:17 See note on Ps 6:5.

17 It is not the dead(A) who praise the Lord,
    those who go down to the place of silence;

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