⁵ Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

¹³ For Thy kindness `is' great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

³ For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to Sheol.

⁴ I have been reckoned with those going down `to' the pit, I have been as a man without strength.

⁵ Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

⁶ Thou hast put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in depths.

⁷ Upon me hath Thy fury lain, And `with' all Thy breakers Thou hast afflicted. Selah.

⁸ Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth.

¹⁵ I `am' afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away.

¹⁶ Over me hath Thy wrath passed, Thy terrors have cut me off,

¹⁷ They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together,

³ Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.

¹² For even man knoweth not his time; as fish that are taken hold of by an evil net, and as birds that are taken hold of by a snare, like these `are' the sons of man snared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.

²⁴ whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,