KJV:
To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
NASB:
to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established for them, and just as they had established for themselves and for their descendants with instructions for their times of fasting and their lamentations.
KJV:
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
NASB:
'I should have been as though I had not been, Carried from womb to tomb.'
KJV:
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
NASB:
"I chose a way for them and sat as chief, And dwelt as a king among the troops, As one who comforted the mourners.
KJV:
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
NASB:
Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness, But persecuted the afflicted and needy man, And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.
KJV:
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
NASB:
When you make a vow to God, do not be late in paying it; for He takes no delight in fools. Pay what you vow!
KJV:
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
NASB:
When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task which has been done on the earth (even though one should never sleep day or night),
KJV:
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
NASB:
It is the same for all. There is one fate for the righteous and for the wicked; for the good, for the clean and for the unclean; for the man who offers a sacrifice and for the one who does not sacrifice. As the good man is, so is the sinner; as the swearer is, so is the one who is afraid to swear.
KJV:
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
NASB:
Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.