The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.

sorrows.

Job 36:8 And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty:

Psalm 18:5 The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death prevented me.

Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:

Psalm 140:5 The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.

Proverbs 5:22 He shall die, because he hath not received instruction, and in the multitude of his folly he shall be deceived.

Jonah 2:2 And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, out of the belly of the fish.

Acts 2:24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be holden by it.

the snares

Proverbs 13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, that he may decline from the ruin of death.

Proverbs 14:27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the ruin of death.