“What profit is there in my death,[a]
    if I go down to the pit?[b]
Will (A)the dust praise you?
    Will it tell of your faithfulness?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 30:9 Hebrew in my blood
  2. Psalm 30:9 Or to corruption

10 Do you work wonders for the dead?
    (A)Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah
11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
    or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Are your (B)wonders known in (C)the darkness,
    or your righteousness in the land of (D)forgetfulness?

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17 (A)The dead do not praise the Lord,
    nor do any who go down into (B)silence.

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18 (A)For Sheol does not thank you;
    death does not praise you;
those who go down to the pit do not hope
    for your faithfulness.

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