Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 30:3

"O Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol; Thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit." — Psalms 30:3 (ASV)

Grave. — Sheôl (See Note to Psalm 6:5).

That I should not go down to the pit. — This follows a reading which is considered by modern scholars ungrammatical. The ordinary reading, rightly kept by the Septuagint and Vulgate, means from these going down to the pit, i.e., from the dead. (Compare to Psalm 28:1.)