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

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)

¹⁰ Do you show your wonders to the dead?
    Do their spirits rise up and praise you?^(A)
11 Is your love declared in the grave,
    your faithfulness^(B) in Destruction^[a]?
¹² Are your wonders known in the place of darkness,
    or your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?