Psalm 6:5 Among the dead no one proclaims your name. Who praises you from the grave?

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Among the dead no one proclaims your name. Who praises you from the grave?

English Standard Version
For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?

New American Standard Bible
For there is no mention of You in death; In Sheol who will give You thanks?

King James Bible
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For there is no remembrance of You in death; who can thank You in Sheol?

International Standard Version
In death, there is no memory of you. Who will give you thanks where the dead are?

American Standard Version
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For there is no one in death, that is mindful of thee: and who shall confess to thee in hell?

Darby Bible Translation
For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who shall give thanks unto thee?

Young's Literal Translation
For there is not in death Thy memorial, In Sheol, who doth give thanks to Thee?

Cross References

Psalm 30:9
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

Psalm 88:10
Will you show wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise you? Selah.

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

Psalm 118:17
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you go.

Isaiah 38:18
For the grave cannot praise you, death can not celebrate you: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for your truth.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

6:1-7 These verses speak the language of a heart truly humbled, of a broken and contrite spirit under great afflictions, sent to awaken conscience and mortify corruption. Sickness brought sin to his remembrance, and he looked upon it as a token of God's displeasure against him. The affliction of his body will be tolerable, if he has comfort in his soul. Christ's sorest complaint, in his sufferings, was of the trouble of his soul, and the want of his Father's smiles. Every page of Scripture proclaims the fact, that salvation is only of the Lord. Man is a sinner, his case can only be reached by mercy; and never is mercy more illustrious than in restoring backsliders. With good reason we may pray, that if it be the will of God, and he has any further work for us or our friends to do in this world, he will yet spare us or them to serve him. To depart and be with Christ is happiest for the saints; but for them to abide in the flesh is more profitable for the church.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. (Compare Ps 115:17, 18; Isa 38:18). There is no incredulity as to a future state. The contrast is between this scene of life, and the grave or Sheol, the unseen world of the dead.

give … thanks—or, "praise for mercies."