כִּ֣י לֹ֥א שְׁא֛וֹל תּוֹדֶ֖ךָּ מָ֣וֶת יְהַלְלֶ֑ךָּ לֹֽא־יְשַׂבְּר֥וּ יֽוֹרְדֵי־ב֖וֹר אֶל־אֲמִתֶּֽךָ׃
Sebab dunia orang mati tidak dapat bersyukur kepada-Mu, maut tidak dapat memuji-Mu; orang-orang yang turun ke liang kubur tidak dapat berharap akan kesetiaan-Mu.
Radak
For in death there is no remembrance of Thee: In Sheol who shall give Thee thanks? – If I die, I shall not remember Thee in death, neither shall I give Thee thanks; and if Thou healest me, I will give Thee thanks before the eyes of all. As Hezekiah (Is. 38:18) says: “For Sheol cannot praise Thee, death cannot celebrate Thee” etc.; and David says (Ps. 118:17): “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.” For the body after the departure of the spirit is as a dumb stone, and it descends to Sheol; but the spirit ascends and praises and glorifies for ever without ceasing. But the righteous longs to live to do the will of God while he is yet alive in order to increase the reward of his soul in the world to come.
Ibn Ezra
And justice standeth afar off. It is figurative expression for "they evince no justice". אמת Truth. It is a feminine noun; the third radical (נ) is dropped and expressed implicitly by Dagesh in אמתך "thy truth" (38:18).