Jonah 2:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

bottoms. roots.

the earth, &c. as for the earth, her bars, &c. Some codices, with one early printed edition, and Syriac, read "and as to the earth".

was. Substitute "were".

for ever. The thought of. drowning man.

brought. didst bring.

corruption. the pit or grave, the place of corruption. Hebrew shachath,

Jonah 2:6

6 I went down to the bottomsb of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.