'Seems' in the Bible

So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!

“Others snatch the fatherless [infants] from the breast [to sell or make them slaves],And against the poor they take a pledge [of clothing].

“And now, because He has not [quickly] punished in His anger,Nor has He acknowledged transgression and arrogance well [and seems unaware of the wrong of which a person is guilty],

“With fierceness and rage he races to devour the ground,And he does not stand still at the sound of the [war] trumpet.

After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.