²² Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

²⁴ Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

²⁸ He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

³⁰ To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

28 Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

⁹ What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

¹⁵ Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

⁴ Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

¹² Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: