Psalm 30:9
New International Version
“What is gained if I am silenced, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?

New Living Translation
“What will you gain if I die, if I sink into the grave? Can my dust praise you? Can it tell of your faithfulness?

English Standard Version
“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?

Berean Standard Bible
“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?

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

New King James Version
“What profit is there in my blood, When I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?

New American Standard Bible
“What gain is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?

NASB 1995
“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?

NASB 1977
“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise Thee? Will it declare Thy faithfulness?

Legacy Standard Bible
“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?

Amplified Bible
“What profit is there in my blood (death), if I go down to the pit (grave)? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness [to man]?

Christian Standard Bible
“What gain is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your truth?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What gain is there in my death, if I go down to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your truth?

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
What profit is there in my blood that I should descend to destruction? The dust does not give thanks to you, neither does it show your faithfulness.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to destruction? Shall the dust give praise to thee? or shall it declare thy truth?

Contemporary English Version
"What good will it do you if I am in the grave? Once I have turned to dust, how can I praise you or tell how loyal you are?

Douay-Rheims Bible
What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"How will you profit if my blood is shed, if I go into the pit? Will the dust [of my body] give thanks to you? Will it tell about your truth?"

Good News Translation
"What will you gain from my death? What profit from my going to the grave? Are dead people able to praise you? Can they proclaim your unfailing goodness?

International Standard Version
"What profit is there in my death if I go down to the Pit? Can dust worship you? Can it proclaim your faithfulness?"

JPS Tanakh 1917
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise Thee? Shall it declare Thy truth?

Literal Standard Version
“What gain [is] in my blood? In my going down to corruption? Does dust thank You? Does it declare Your truth?

Majority Standard Bible
“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?

New American Bible
“What gain is there from my lifeblood, from my going down to the grave? Does dust give you thanks or declare your faithfulness?

NET Bible
"What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?

New Revised Standard Version
“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?

New Heart English Bible
"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Webster's Bible Translation
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

World English Bible
“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Young's Literal Translation
What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
You Turned My Mourning into Dancing
8To You, O LORD, I called, and I begged my Lord for mercy: 9“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness? 10Hear me, O LORD, and have mercy; O LORD, be my helper.”…

Cross References
Psalm 6:5
For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?

Psalm 28:1
To you, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.

Psalm 30:8
To You, O LORD, I called, and I begged my Lord for mercy:

Psalm 88:10
Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah

Isaiah 38:18
For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.


Treasury of Scripture

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

What

Psalm 6:5
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

Psalm 88:10-12
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah…

Psalm 115:17,18
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence…

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Psalm 30
1. David praises God for his deliverance
4. He exhorts others to praise him by example of God's dealings with him














(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.

Verse 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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“What
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

gain
בֶּ֥צַע (be·ṣa‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1215: Gain made by violence, unjust gain, profit

is in the shedding of my blood,
בְּדָמִי֮ (bə·ḏā·mî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

in my descent
בְּרִדְתִּ֪י (bə·riḏ·tî)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend

to
אֶ֫ל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the Pit?
שָׁ֥חַת (šā·ḥaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7845: A pit, destruction

Will the dust
עָפָ֑ר (‘ā·p̄ār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

praise You?
הֲיוֹדְךָ֥ (hă·yō·wḏ·ḵā)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3034: To throw, at, away, to revere, worship, to bemoan

Will it proclaim
הֲיַגִּ֥יד (hă·yag·gîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous

Your faithfulness?
אֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃ (’ă·mit·te·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 571: Stability, certainty, truth, trustworthiness


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