Muhammad Habib Shakir: They wish that you should be pliant so they (too) would be pliant.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali: Their desire is that thou shouldst be pliant: so would they be pliant.
M.Pickthall: Who would have had thee compromise, that they may compromise.
Amatul Rahmân Omer: They wish you to be (dishonestly) pliant (and not condemn their evil deeds in strong language) so they (too) would (in return) adopt a conciliatory attitude.
