Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
What the profit in my blood in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it announce thy truth?
New American Standard Bible
Will the
King James 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?
Holman Bible
if I go down to the Pit?
Will the dust praise You?
Will it proclaim Your truth?
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?"
A Conservative 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?
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?
Amplified
“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]?
Darby Translation
What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
King James 2000
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"What gain [is there] in my {death}, in my going down into [the] pit? Will [the] dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?
Modern King James verseion
What profit is in my blood, in going down to the pit? Shall the dust praise You? Shall it tell of Your truth?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down into the pit? Shall the dust give thanks unto thee? Or shall it declare thy truth?
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 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?
The Emphasized Bible
What profit in my blood? in my going down into the pit? Can dust praise thee? Can it declare thy faithfulness?
Webster
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?
Youngs Literal Translation
What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 30:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Joy In The Morning
8 To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, and to Jehovah will I make supplication. 9 What the profit in my blood in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it announce thy truth? 10 Hear, O Jehovah, and pity me: O Jehovah, be a helper to me.
Cross References
Psalm 6:5
For in death none remembering thee: in hades who shall give thanks to thee?
Psalm 88:10-12
Wilt thou do wonder to the dead? if the shades shall arise, shall they praise thee? Silence.
Psalm 115:17-18
The dead shall not praise Jah, and all going down to silence.
Psalm 118:17
I shall not die, for I shall live and I shall recount the works of Jah.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
All which thy hand shall find to do, with thy strength, do thou; for no work and understanding and knowledge and wisdom, in hades where thou goest there.
Isaiah 38:18
For not hades shall praise thee, death celebrate: they going down to the pit shall not hope for thy truth.