⁹ “What is gained if I am silenced,
    if I go down to the pit?^(A)
Will the dust praise you?
    Will it proclaim your faithfulness?^(B)

⁵ Among the dead no one proclaims your name.
    Who praises you from the grave?^(A)

¹⁸ For the grave^(A) cannot praise you,
    death cannot sing your praise;^(B)
those who go down to the pit^(C)
    cannot hope for your faithfulness.

¹⁷ I will not die^(A) but live,
    and will proclaim^(B) what the Lord has done.