Psalms 30:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“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?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 6:5 : 5 For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?
  • Ps 88:10-12 : 10 Do you accomplish amazing things for the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and give you thanks?(Selah) 11 Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead? 12 Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?
  • Ps 115:17-18 : 17 The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death. 18 But we will praise the LORD now and forevermore. Praise the LORD!
  • Ps 118:17 : 17 I will not die, but live, and I will proclaim what the LORD has done.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.
  • Isa 38:18 : 18 Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the Pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.

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  • Isa 38:18-19
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    18Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the Pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.

    19The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    76%

    20If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

    21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

  • Ps 30:10
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    10Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me! O LORD, deliver me!”

  • Ps 6:5
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    5For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?

  • Job 30:19-20
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    19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

    20I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.

  • Ps 30:8
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    8To you, O LORD, I cried out; I begged the Lord for mercy:

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    3O LORD, you pulled me up from Sheol; you rescued me from among those descending into the grave.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

    14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

  • Job 16:17-18
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    17although there is no violence in my hands and my prayer is pure.

    18An Appeal to God as Witness“O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.

  • Ps 88:10-11
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    73%

    10Do you accomplish amazing things for the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and give you thanks?(Selah)

    11Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead?

  • Job 35:3
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    3But you say,‘What will it profit you,’ and,‘What do I gain by not sinning?’

  • Job 17:15-16
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    15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

    16Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

  • Ps 28:1
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    1By David. To you, O LORD, I cry out! My protector, do not ignore me! If you do not respond to me, I will join those who are descending into the grave.

  • Job 33:28
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    28He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

  • Ps 89:48-49
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    48No man can live on without experiencing death, or deliver his life from the power of Sheol.(Selah)

    49Where are your earlier faithful deeds, O Lord, the ones performed in accordance with your reliable oath to David?

  • Job 9:29
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    29If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?

  • Job 9:31
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    31then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

  • Ps 42:9
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    9I will pray to God, my high ridge:“Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?”

  • Job 27:9
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    9Does God listen to his cry when distress overtakes him?

  • Ps 7:5
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    5may an enemy relentlessly chase me and catch me; may he trample me to death and leave me lying dishonored in the dust.(Selah)

  • Job 17:1
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    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

  • Job 10:18
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  • Job 14:3
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    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Ps 9:13
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    13when they prayed:“Have mercy on me, LORD! See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, O one who can snatch me away from the gates of death!

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    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

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    3For my life is filled with troubles and I am ready to enter Sheol.

    4They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,

  • Ps 22:15
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    15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

  • Ps 143:3
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    3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

  • Isa 38:10
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    10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

  • Jonah 2:6
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    6I went down to the very bottoms of the mountains; the gates of the netherworld barred me in forever; but you brought me up from the Pit, O LORD, my God.

  • Ps 49:15
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    15But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety.(Selah)

  • Job 13:14
    70%

    14Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?

  • Ps 39:13
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    13Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.

  • Job 30:23
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    23I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

  • Job 6:11
    70%

    11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • Job 33:30
    70%

    30to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

  • Job 10:20
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    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Ps 143:7
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    7Answer me quickly, LORD! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.

  • Ps 88:6
    70%

    6You place me in the lowest regions of the Pit, in the dark places, in the watery depths.

  • Isa 38:15
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    15What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.

  • Isa 14:19
    70%

    19But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the Pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.