Psalms 88:12

He asks whether God's wonders and righteousness are known in the darkness of the dead. He fears death will end his knowledge of God's works.

Cross-references · 10

• Eccl 9:5For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
• Matt 8:12but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
• Eccl 8:10So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
• Eccl 2:16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
• Ps 143:3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
• Jude 1:13wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
• Ps 88:5set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.
• Job 10:21–22before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
• Isa 8:22and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
• Ps 31:12I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

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