Taken hold — Mens sins are figuratively said to take hold of them, as an officer takes hold of a man whom he arrests. To look — Unto God or men, with any comfort: I am ashamed and confounded.
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Psalms 40:12
12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.