The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.
I was caught by the cords of death; the snares of Sheol had seized me; I felt agony and dread.
Then the waters would have engulfed us, the torrent overwhelmed us;
Do not let the flood waters overwhelm me, nor the deep swallow me, nor the pit close its mouth over me.
Your mercy to me is great; you have rescued me from the depths of Sheol.
Human beings no more know their own time than fish taken in the fatal net or birds trapped in the snare; like these, mortals are caught when an evil time suddenly falls upon them. The Uncertain Future and the Sages.
But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it.