⁵ The sorrows [1] of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

⁵ The cords of Sheol were around me.
The snares of death came on me.

⁵ The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

⁵ The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.