Parallel Verses
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 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?
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?
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?
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 you, O Lord, I cried out; I begged the Lord for mercy: 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? 10 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy on me! O Lord, deliver me!"
Cross References
Psalm 6:5
For no one remembers you in the realm of death, In Sheol who gives you thanks?
Psalm 88:10-12
Do you accomplish amazing things for the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and give you thanks? (Selah)
Psalm 115:17-18
The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death.
Psalm 118:17
I will not die, but live, and I will proclaim what the Lord has done.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
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.
Isaiah 38:18
Indeed Sheol does not give you thanks; death does not praise you. Those who descend into the pit do not anticipate your faithfulness.