When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
Ver. 3. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me] Or, covered over, with grief, as the Greek expoundeth it.
Then thou knewest my path] sc. That I neither fretted nor fainted; or, thou knewest how to make a way to escape, 1 Corinthians 10:13. The Lord knoweth how to deliver his, 2 Peter 2:9 .