What do you do when the silence speaks louder than the text?

I was translating a safety manual yesterday, and halfway through, I stopped. Not because of a term—those are easy to look up—but because the space between sentences started feeling like a warning. The kind that doesn’t appear in any glossary. I kept thinking: what if the real translation isn’t what’s written, but what’s left out? What do you do when the quiet after a sentence holds more weight than the words themselves?