Psalm 30:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

What profit is there in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit (the grave)? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth and faithfulness to men?

American Standard Version (1901)

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Common English Bible

“What is to be gained by my spilled blood, by my going down into the pit? Does dust thank you? Does it proclaim your faithfulness?

Catholic Public Domain Version

And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.

Psalm 30:9 Cross References

Psalm 118:17

I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the LORD.

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

Psalm 66:17

I cried unto him with my mouth, And he was extolled with my tongue.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

Isaiah 38:18

For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.