Psalms 6:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 30:9 : 9 “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?
  • 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 : 17 The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death.
  • 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 38:18-19 : 18 Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the Pit do not anticipate your faithfulness. 19 The living person, the living person, he gives you thanks, as I do today. A father tells his sons about your faithfulness.
  • John 9:4 : 4 We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.
  • Ps 118:17 : 17 I will not die, but live, and I will proclaim what the LORD has done.

Similar Verses (AI)

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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.

  • Ps 115:17
    78%

    17The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death.

  • Ps 88:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5adrift among the dead, like corpses lying in the grave, whom you remember no more, and who are cut off from your power.

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

  • Eccl 9:5
    76%

    5For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything; they have no further reward– and even the memory of them disappears.

  • Ps 88:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    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?

    12Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?

  • Ps 30:9
    75%

    9“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?

  • Ps 89:47-49
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    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

    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 14:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12so man lies down and does not rise; until the heavens are no more, they will not awake nor arise from their sleep.

    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!

  • Ps 6:4
    74%

    4Relent, LORD, rescue me! Deliver me because of your faithfulness!

  • Ps 6:6
    74%

    6I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.

  • Isa 26:14
    73%

    14The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.

  • Ps 30:3
    73%

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

  • Job 7:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again.

    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • Ps 49:15
    72%

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

  • Job 21:32
    71%

    32And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

  • Ps 16:10
    71%

    10You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.

  • Eccl 4:2
    70%

    2So I considered those who are dead and gone more fortunate than those who are still alive.

  • Job 30:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

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

    24The Contrast With the Past“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

  • Job 3:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,

    22who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?

  • Job 14:10
    70%

    10But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?

  • Job 7:21
    70%

    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.”

  • Job 17:13
    70%

    13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

  • Job 17:1
    70%

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

  • Ps 139:8
    70%

    8If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.

  • Ps 116:3
    69%

    3The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.

  • Ps 143:3
    69%

    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.

  • Job 26:5
    69%

    5A Better Description of God’s Greatness“The dead tremble– those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

  • Ps 146:4
    69%

    4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

  • 1 Sam 2:6
    69%

    6The LORD both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.

  • Ps 31:17
    69%

    17O LORD, do not let me be humiliated, for I call out to you! May evil men be humiliated! May they go wailing to the grave!

  • Job 17:16
    69%

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

  • Ps 49:17
    69%

    17For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.

  • Acts 2:27
    69%

    27because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.

  • Hos 13:14
    69%

    14The Lord Will Not Relent from the Threatened Judgment Will I deliver them from the power of Sheol? No, I will not! Will I redeem them from death? No, I will not! O Death, bring on your plagues! O Sheol, bring on your destruction! My eyes will not show any compassion!

  • Ps 63:6
    69%

    6whenever I remember you on my bed, and think about you during the nighttime hours.

  • Isa 38:10
    69%

    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.’

  • Ps 71:20
    69%

    20Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, revive me once again! Bring me up once again from the depths of the earth!

  • Ps 9:13
    69%

    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!

  • 2 Sam 22:6
    69%

    6The ropes of Sheol tightened around me; the snares of death trapped me.