KJV:
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
NASB:
Let them be like grass upon the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;
KJV:
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
NASB:
A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
KJV:
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
NASB:
For the waters of Nimrim are desolate. Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out, There is no green thing.
KJV:
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
NASB:
The waters from the sea will dry up, And the river will be parched and dry.
KJV:
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.
NASB:
The bulrushes by the Nile, by the edge of the Nile And all the sown fields by the Nile Will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.
KJV:
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
NASB:
When its limbs are dry, they are broken off; Women come and make a fire with them, For they are not a people of discernment, Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them. And their Creator will not be gracious to them.
KJV:
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
NASB:
The grass withers, the flower fades, When the breath of the LORD blows upon it; Surely the people are grass.
KJV:
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
NASB:
The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.
KJV:
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
NASB:
Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth, But He merely blows on them, and they wither, And the storm carries them away like stubble.