30:3 O Lord, you pulled me 1 up from Sheol;
you rescued me from among those descending into the grave. 2
49:17 For he will take nothing with him when he dies;
his wealth will not follow him down into the grave. 3
88:11 Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave,
or your faithfulness in the place of the dead? 4
1 tn Or “my life.”
2 tn Heb “you kept me alive from those descending into the pit.” The Hebrew noun בוֹר (bor, “pit, cistern”) is sometimes used of the grave and/or the realm of the dead. The translation follows the consonantal Hebrew text (Kethib); the marginal reading (Qere) has, “you kept me alive so that I did not go down into the pit.”
3 tn Heb “his glory will not go down after him.”
4 tn Heb “in Abaddon,” a name for Sheol. The noun is derived from a verbal root meaning “to perish,” “to die.”