“If He should determine to do so,
If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath,

Should he that hateth right indeed govern? and wilt thou condemn the All-just?

“For He does not need to consider a man further,
That he should go before God in judgment.

so that the godless man should not rule, and not lay snares for the people.

"Should you not be paid back, since you have rejected him? You do the choosing! I won't! Tell us what you know!

"When thou speakest, then, should not he pardon thee, if thou open thyself before him, and put thy trust in him?

Thus hath he uncovered their ear to a warning, and said - that they should turn from iniquity.

If they would hearken, and serve, they should complete their days, in prosperity, and their years, in pleasantness;

But, if they would not hearken, by a weapon, should they pass away, and breathe their last, no one knowing.

Yea, the impious in heart, should store up anger, They should not cry for help, when he bound them.

Their soul should die in youth, and their life, among the unclean.

Yea he might even have allured thee - out of the mouth of straitness, into a wide space - no narrowness there, - and, the food set down on thy table, should have been full of fatness.

Hath God ordained then, that the glorious life of thee, and all such mighty men should not be put down?

“Remember that you should exalt His work,
Of which men have sung.

That thy garments should be hot when he quieteth the earth from the south?

Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

“Shall it be told Him that I would speak?
Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?

Seeing then that everybody feareth him, why should not all wise men also stand in fear of him?"

that thou should take it to the bound of it, and that thou should discern the paths to the house of it?

You should know! After all, you had been born back then, so the number of your days is great!

"Should the one who is fighting the Almighty find fault with him? Let God's accuser answer."

that the mountains should give him grass, where all the beasts of the field take their pastime.

If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.

Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou should take him for a servant forever?

“Who has given to Me that I should repay him?
Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.