16. O Lord, by these things men live; and in all these is the life of my spirit. O give me back my health and make me live!
17. Behold, it was for my peace that I had intense bitterness; but You have loved back my life from the pit of corruption and nothingness, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
18. For Sheol (the place of the dead) cannot confess and reach out the hand to You, death cannot praise and rejoice in You; they who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness [to Your promises; their probation is at an end, their destiny is sealed].
19. The living, the living–they shall thank and praise You, as I do this day; the father shall make known to the children Your faithfulness and Your truth.
20. The Lord is ready to save (deliver) me; therefore we will sing my songs with [my] stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the Lord.
21. Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs and lay it for a plaster upon the boil, that he may recover.