Isaiah 38:18

A Conservative Version

For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee. Those who go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

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Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go.

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

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

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.

So they, and all that pertained to them, went down alive into Sheol. And the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.

To thee, O LORD, I will call. My rock, be not thou deaf to me, lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I make my bed to swim. I water my couch with my tears.