Psalms Chapter 30 verse 9 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 30:9

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
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BBE Psalms 30:9

What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the underworld? will the dust give you praise, or be a witness to your help?
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DARBY Psalms 30:9

What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
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KJV Psalms 30:9

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
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WBT Psalms 30:9

I cried to thee, O LORD; and to the LORD I made supplication.
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WEB Psalms 30:9

"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
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YLT Psalms 30:9

`What gain `is' in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit! What advantage wilt thou derive from my death, if thou killest me, either by the plague, which may as well fasten upon me as upon any one else, or by the misery and mental strain of seeing my subjects, my innocent sheep, suffer? God has "no pleasure in the death of him that dieth" (Ezekiel 18:32), and certainly can obtain no profit from the destruction of any of his creatures. Shall the dust praise thee? (comp. Psalm 6:5; Psalm 88:10; Psalm 115:17; Isaiah 38:18). In death, so far as the power of death extends, there can be no action; the lips cease to move, and therefore cannot hymn God's praise - the "dust" is inanimate, and, while it remains dust, cannot speak. What the freed soul may do, the psalmist does not consider. Very little was known under the old dispensation concerning the intermediate state. Shall it declare thy truth? The dust certainly could not do this, unless revivified and formed into another living body.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) What profit . . .--i.e., to God. For the conception of death as breaking the covenant relation between Israel and Jehovah, and so causing loss to Him as well as to them (for Sheol had its own king or shepherd, Death) by putting an end to all religious service, comp. Hezekiah's song; Isaiah 38:18. Comp. also Psalm 6:5, and note Psalm 88:11.) Plainly as yet no hope, not even a dim one, had arisen of praising God beyond the grave. The vision of the New Jerusalem, with the countless throngs of redeemed with harps and palms, was yet for the future.