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?

⁵ For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?

¹⁰ Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)

¹¹ Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?

¹² May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

¹⁷ The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.

¹⁸ But we will give praise to the Lord now and for ever. Praise be to the Lord.

¹⁷ Life and not death will be my part, and I will give out the story of the works of the Lord.

¹⁰ Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.

¹⁸ For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.