New Revised Standard Version
the cords of Sheol entangled me, the snares of death confronted me.

Contemporary English Version
Ropes from the world of the dead had coiled around me, and death had set a trap in my path.

New American Bible
The cords of Sheol tightened; the snares of death lay in wait for me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The cords of hell compassed me: the snares of death prevented me.

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.