Rashi, on Ps 43:20

“For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us.”

“when You crushed us in a place of serpents This כי serves as an expression of כאשר, when. Even when You humbled us in a land of plains and pits; [in] a desert, a place of serpents, and You covered us with the darkness of death - despite all this, if we forgot the name of our God, will God not search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.