Psalm 30:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ 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

⁹ 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)

⁹ 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

⁹ “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

⁹ 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

⁹ 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 I shall live and recount the deeds of the Lord.

Psalm 6:5

For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who can give you praise?

Psalm 66:17

I cried aloud to him, and he was extolled with my tongue.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Isaiah 38:18

For Sheol cannot thank you; death cannot praise you; those who go down to the Pit cannot hope for your faithfulness.