But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.