Psalm 6:5 {6}
Good News Translation
In the world of the dead you are not remembered; no one can praise you there.

New Revised Standard Version
For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who can give you praise?

Contemporary English Version
If I die, I cannot praise you or even remember you.

New American Bible
For in death there is no remembrance of you. Who praises you in Sheol?

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

For

Psalm 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?

Psalm 88:10-12 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee? . . .

Psalm 115:17 The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.

John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

Context
Do not Rebuke Me in Your Anger
4Turn to me, O Lord, and deliver my soul: O save me for thy mercy's sake. 5For there is no one in death, that is mindful of thee: and who shall confess to thee in hell?6I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.…
Cross References
Psalm 30:9
What profit is there in my blood, whilst I go down to corruption? Shall dust confess to thee, or declare thy truth?

Psalm 88:10
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? or shall physicians raise to life, and give praise to thee?

Psalm 115:17
The dead shall not praise thee, O Lord: nor any of them that go down to hell.

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

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Isaiah 38:18
For hell shall not confess to thee, neither shall death praise thee: nor shall they that go down into the pit, look for thy truth.

Psalm 6:4
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