⁵ Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
    Who praises you from the grave?^(A)

⁹ “What is gained if I am silenced,
    if I go down to the pit?^(A)
Will the dust praise you?
    Will it proclaim your faithfulness?^(B)

¹¹ Is your love declared in the grave,
    your faithfulness^(A) in Destruction^[a]?

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