For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not
celebrate
thee
That is, they that are in the grave, and under the power of
death, they cannot celebrate the praises of God with their bodily
organs; their souls may praise him in heaven, but they in their
bodies cannot till the resurrection morn, or as long as they are
under the dominion of the grave; so the Targum,
``they that are in the grave cannot confess before thee, and the dead cannot praise thee;''in like manner the Septuagint and Arabic versions: this shows the design of God in restoring him from his sickness, and the view he himself had in desiring life, which was to praise the Lord; and which end could not have been answered had he died, and been laid in the grave: they that go down to the pit cannot hope for thy truth: