Psalm 88:10
“Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.”
KJV
Read in Psalm 88Meaning
The rhetorical question presses the urgency of the plea for life. In the psalm’s ancient lament setting, death is pictured as the end of ordinary public praise; the verse is not a complete systematic statement about resurrection or the afterlife.
Read carefully
It is a rhetorical question within a lament about the urgency of preserving life.
Reflection
Interpret them within the lament’s poetic argument before building broader doctrine.