KJV:
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
NASB:
Now God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment and breadth of mind, like the sand that is on the seashore.
KJV:
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
NASB:
"For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; Therefore my words have been rash.
KJV:
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
NASB:
"Then I thought, 'I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand.
KJV:
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
NASB:
When He rained meat upon them like the dust, Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,
KJV:
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
NASB:
If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.
KJV:
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
NASB:
A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.
KJV:
For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.
NASB:
For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, Only a remnant within them will return; A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
KJV:
Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
NASB:
"Your descendants would have been like the sand, And your offspring like its grains; Their name would never be cut off or destroyed from My presence."
KJV:
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
NASB:
'Do you not fear Me?' declares the LORD. 'Do you not tremble in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it. Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it.
KJV:
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
NASB:
"Their widows will be more numerous before Me Than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man, A destroyer at noonday; I will suddenly bring down on her Anguish and dismay.