Psalms 88:12

Are your amazing deeds experienced ¹  in the dark region, ²  or your deliverance in the land of oblivion? ³ 

Job 10:21,22; Ps 31:12; Ps 88:5; Ps 143:3; Ec 2:16; Ec 8:10; Ec 9:5; Isa 8:22; Mt 8:12; Jude 1:13

¹ tn Heb “known.”

² tn Heb “darkness,” here a title for Sheol.

³ tn Heb “forgetfulness.” The noun, which occurs only here in the OT, is derived from a verbal root meaning “to forget.”

sn The rhetorical questions in vv. 10-12 expect the answer, “Of course not!”