KJV:
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
NASB:
"Forsake your folly and live, And proceed in the way of understanding."
KJV:
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
NASB:
He who profits illicitly troubles his own house, But he who hates bribes will live.
KJV:
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
NASB:
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, "Better the miscarriage than he,
KJV:
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
NASB:
"Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice and does not enjoy good things-- do not all go to one place?"
KJV:
For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
NASB:
For wisdom is protection just as money is protection, But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the lives of its possessors.
KJV:
But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
NASB:
Indeed, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.
KJV:
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
NASB:
Now in that day a man may keep alive a heifer and a pair of sheep;
KJV:
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
NASB:
The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise; Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And You have wiped out all remembrance of them.
KJV:
Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
NASB:
Your dead will live; Their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy, For your dew is as the dew of the dawn, And the earth will give birth to the departed spirits.