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9What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence. …
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. …
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-12)We have, in these verses, an account of three several states that David was in successively, and of the workings of his heart towards God in each of those states—what he said and did, and how his heart stood affected; in the first of these we may see what we are too apt to be, and in the other two what we should be. I. He had long enjoyed prosperity, and then he grew secure and over-confident of t…
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