"Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me,"
NIV
Then will they call upon me [Wisdom] but I will not answer; they will seek me early and diligently but they will not find me. [Job 27:9; 35:12, 13; Isa. 1:15, 16; Jer. 11:11; Mic. 3:4; James 4:3.]AMP
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
KJV
To you, LORD, I call, for fire has devoured the pastures in the wilderness and flames have burned up all the trees of the field.
NIV
O Lord, to You will I cry, for the fire has devoured the pastures and folds of the plain and the wilderness, and flame has burned all the trees of the field.
AMP
O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
KJV
If we have built our own altar to turn away from the LORD and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the LORD himself call us to account.
NIV
If we have built us an altar to turn away from following the Lord, or if we did so to offer on it burnt offerings or cereal offerings or peace offerings, may the Lord Himself take vengeance.
AMP
That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;
KJV
"But now we call the arrogant blessed. Certainly evildoers prosper, and even when they put God to the test, they get away with it."
NIV
And now we consider the proud and arrogant to be happy and favored; evildoers are exalted and prosper; yes, and when they test God, they escape [unpunished].
AMP
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
KJV
"Do not call conspiracy everything this people calls a conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it."
NIV
Do not call conspiracy [or hard, or holy] all that this people will call conspiracy [or hard, or holy]; neither be in fear of what they fear, nor [make others afraid and] in dread.
AMP
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
KJV