"Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor
and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked." 82:3-4
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee?"
People don't survive their own deaths. Dead people are not only merely dead, they are really most sincerely dead. 88:10-12
"The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence." 115:17