then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

He draws near to the place of corruption, and his life to the messengers of death.

If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river.

and if God is gracious to him and says, ‘Spare him from going down to the place of corruption, I have found a ransom for him,’

He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.