8. You have put my [familiar] friends far from me; You have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
9. My eye grows dim because of sorrow and affliction. Lord, I have called daily on You; I have spread forth my hands to You.
10. Will You show wonders to the dead? Shall the departed arise and praise You? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
11. Shall Your steadfast love be declared in the grave? Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (Sheol, as a place of ruin and destruction)?