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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

¹⁹ The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.

⁴ While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.