22:6 The ropes of Sheol 1 tightened around me; 2
the snares of death trapped me. 3
[22:6] 1 tn “Sheol,” personified here as David’s enemy, is the underworld, place of the dead in primitive Hebrew cosmology.
[22:6] 2 tn Heb “surrounded me.”
[22:6] 3 tn Heb “confronted me.”
