The cords of She'ol were around me. The snares of death came on me.
The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of She'ol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;
Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.
For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest She'ol.
For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.