And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction,
Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.
know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.
Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
Some sat in darkness and in gloom, prisoners in affliction and in irons,
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me, I do not forget thy law.
to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron,
the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.