Psalms 88:12

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark?.... A description of the grave again; see Job 10:21, The sense may be, should he continue in the dark and silent grave, how would the wonders of the grace of…

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? - In the dark world; in “the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and where the light is as darkness.” Job…

In these verses,

I. The psalmist expostulates with God concerning the present deplorable condition he was in (Psa 88:10-12): "Wilt thou do a miraculous work to the dead, and raise them to life again?…

Nay, God's wonders will not even be known in Darkness, nor His righteousness, His faithfulness to His covenant (Psa 71:2, and often), in the land of Oblivion: where men neither remember God (Psa 6:5)…