{O that} you would keep completely silent, and [that] it would become wisdom for you.

Moreover, this [is] salvation to me, that [the] godless would not come {before him}.

Who [is] he who will contend with me? For {then} I would be silent, and I would pass away.

"{O that} you would conceal me in Sheol, [that] you would hide me {until your wrath is past}, [that] you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.

You would call, and I myself would answer you; you would long for the work of your hand.

For then you would count my steps, [but] you would not keep watch over my sin.

My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and you would cover over my guilt.

I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would ease the pain.

Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'

I would lay [my] case {before him}, and I would fill my mouth [with] arguments

I want to know [the] words [with which] he would answer me, and I want to understand what he would say to me.

Would he contend with me in [the] greatness of [his] strength? No, but he himself would give heed to me.

There an upright person could reason with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.

Far be it from me that {I would say that you are right}; until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness.

Indeed, that [is] a fire that will consume up to Abaddon, and it would uproot all my crop.

I would {surely} carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me [like] a crown.

I would give him an account of my steps; I would approach him like a noble.

for I do not know [how] {to flatter}, [else] my Maker would {soon} put an end to me.

all flesh would perish together, and humankind would return to dust.

Would that Job were tested up to [the] end because [his] answers [are] like [those from] men of mischief,

Should he be told that I want to speak? Or did a man say that he would be communicated with?

"Indeed, would you annul my justice? Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous?

[Is] it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who [then] [is] he [who] would stand {before it}?

Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake}; one would think [that] the deep [has] gray hair.

You would put to shame [the] plan of [the] poor, because Yahweh [is] his refuge.

{Oh that from Zion} [would come] salvation [for] Israel! When Yahweh returns the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be happy.

Do not be like a horse [or] like a mule, without understanding; [that needs] his tackle--bridle and rein--for restraint [or he would not] come near you.

Many things, O Yahweh my God, you have done-- your wonderful deeds and your thoughts toward us. There is none to compare with you. If I [tried to] proclaim and tell [of them], they would be too numerous to count.

These I remember and I pour out my soul within me: that I would go with the multitude; I led them [in procession] to the house of God, with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving, a crowd celebrating a festival.

would not God discover this, for he knows [the] secrets of [the] heart?

If I were hungry I would not tell you, because [the] world and its fullness [are] mine.

For you do not delight [in] sacrifice or I would give [it]. [With] a burnt offering you are not pleased.

"Look, the man [who] would not make God his refuge, but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth; he took refuge in his destructiveness."

{Oh, that from Zion} would come salvation [for] Israel! When God returns the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

So I say, "{Oh, that} I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest.

Look, I would flee far away. I would dwell in the wilderness. Selah

I would hurry to my refuge from [the] raging wind [and] storm."

[We] who would take sweet counsel together; in the house of God we would walk with [the] throng.

They [who] would {deliver him to the sword} will become a portion for jackals.

And they [who] would cause him to stumble, their [own] tongue [will be] against them. All who gaze on them will shake.

If I had considered evil in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

If I had said, "I will speak thus," behold, I would have acted treacherously against your children's generation.

Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you; O Israel, if you would [but] listen to me.

Oh that my people would listen to me; [that] Israel would walk in my ways.

I would subdue their enemies quickly, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

Those who hate Yahweh would cringe before him, and their fate would be forever.

But he would feed him from [the] choicest wheat, and I would satisfy you with honey from a rock."

Because better [is] a day in your courtyards than a thousand [elsewhere]. I would rather be at the threshold of the house of my God than to dwell in [the] tents of wickedness.

If Yahweh had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in silence.

You set a boundary that they may not cross over, [so that] they would not return to cover the earth.

So he said he would exterminate them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to reverse his wrath from destroying [them].

Then I would not be ashamed when I look to all your commands.

In the way of your testimonies I have rejoiced as [I would] over all riches.

Unless your law [had been] my delight, then I would have perished in my misery.

then they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger was kindled against us.

Then the waters would have flooded over us, [the] torrent would have passed over our soul.

Then over our soul would have passed the raging waters."

even there your hand would lead me, and your right hand would hold me fast.

If I should count them, they would outnumber [the] sand. I awaken, and I [am] still with you.

If only you would kill the wicked, O God-- so get away from me, [you] {bloodthirsty men}--

{Scarcely had I passed} by them when I found him whom my {heart} loves. I held him and I would not let him go until I brought him to the house of my mother, into the bedroom chamber of she who conceived me.

{How I wish that you were my little brother}, [who] nursed {upon my mother's breasts}! [If] {I met you outside}, I would kiss you, {and no one would despise me}!

{I would surely bring you} to the house of my mother, {who would surely teach me}; {I would give you spiced wine to drink}, the {sweet wine} of my pomegranates.

Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house {for love}, he would be utterly scorned.

If Yahweh of hosts had not left us survivors, we would have been as few as Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah.

who made [the] world like the desert and destroyed its cities, [who] would not let his prisoners go home?'

Who gave Jacob to a plunderer and Israel to those who plunder? [Was it] not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned? And they were not willing to walk in his ways, and they would not {obey} his law.

Who would form a god and cast an image of [which] he cannot profit?

And I declared [them] to you from of old; I { announced} [them] to you before they came [to pass] so that you would not say, 'My idol did them, and my image and my cast image commanded them.'

Neither have you heard, nor have you known, nor from {of old} has your ear been opened. For I knew you would deal treacherously, very treacherously, and you [are] called a rebel from [the] womb.

O that you had listened attentively to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

And your offspring would have been like the sand, and the descendants of your {body} like its grains. It would not be cut off, and its name would not be destroyed from my presence."

"For this [is like] the waters of Noah to me, when I swore {that the waters of Noah would never again pass} over the earth, so I swore {that I would not be} angry at you and rebuke you.

Would that you would tear [the] heavens [and] come down; [the] mountains would quake before you,

Thus says Yahweh: "Heaven [is] my throne, and the earth [is] the footstool for my feet. Where [is] this house that you would build for me? And where [is] this resting place for me?

A {saying}: 'Look, [if] a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him {and she becomes another man's wife}, will he return to her again?' Will not that land be greatly defiled? And you have prostituted [yourself] [with] many lovers, [would] you now return to me?" {declares} Yahweh.

Then I thought, 'How I would set you among the children, and I would give you a land of desire, an inheritance of [the] glory of [the] hosts of nations.' And I thought, 'You would call me, "My father," and you would not turn back from {behind} me.'

Who would not revere you, O king of the nations? For you it is fitting. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like you.

For as the loincloth clings to [the] loins of a person, so I caused to cling to me all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah,' {declares} Yahweh, 'to be for me a people, and a name, and a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.'

Then Yahweh said to me, "[Even] if Moses and Samuel stood {before me}, my heart [would] not [be] to this people. Send [them] away from my {sight}, and let them go out.

But [if] it does evil in my sight, to not listen to my voice, then I will relent concerning the good that I said I would do [to] it.

Because he did not kill me in [the] womb, so that my mother would have been for me my grave, and [her] womb [would be] pregnant forever.

"As I live," {declares} Yahweh, "surely if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were [the] seal on my right hand, surely from there I would wrench you off.

And I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those from whom you [are] frightened by their presence, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words [to] my people, and they would have caused them to turn from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds.

because they did not listen to my words,' {declares} Yahweh, 'when I sent to them my servants the prophets, {sending over and over again}, and they would not listen,' {declares} Yahweh.

And their noble will be from them, and their ruler will come out from their midst. And I will bring him near and he will approach me. For who [is] he that would pledge his heart to approach me?' {declares} Yahweh.

"If these rules would cease from {before me}," {declares} Yahweh, "also the offspring of Israel would cease from being a nation {before me} {forever}."

"Thus says Yahweh: 'If you could break my covenant [with] the day, and my covenant [with] the night, so that day and night [would] not come at their time,

then the offspring of Jacob and David my servant I would reject, from choosing rulers from his offspring over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will restore their fortunes and I will have compassion on them.'"

{And then}, as Jehudi read three or four columns, he would cut it up in pieces with the knife of the scribe, and he would throw [it] into the fire that [was] in the fire-pot until the whole of the scroll [was] consumed in the fire that was in the fire-pot.

And even [when] Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

And I will punish him, and his offspring, and his servants for their guilt, and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the people of Judah all the disaster with which I have threatened them, but they would not listen." '"

For [even] if you struck the whole army of [the] Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and [only] men pierced through remained among them, each one in his tent, they would rise up and they would burn this city with fire.'"

And Jeremiah said, "[That is] a lie! I [am] not deserting to the Chaldeans." But he would not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials.

and said to him, "{Are you at all aware} that Baalis, the king of the {Ammonites}, has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, to kill you?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them.

If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves in the night, they destroy [only] {enough for them}.

And Jeremiah wrote all the disasters that would come on Babylon in one scroll, all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

{Wherever} the spirit went they would go there, and the wheels rose, for the spirit of the living creatures [was] in the wheels.

[and] not to many nations {of obscure speech} and {a difficult language} {whose words} you do not understand, [for] if I had sent you to them they would have listened to you.