KJV:
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
NASB:
Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.
KJV:
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
NASB:
The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that one fate befalls them both.
KJV:
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
NASB:
For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise man as with the fool, inasmuch as in the coming days all will be forgotten. And how the wise man and the fool alike die!
KJV:
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
NASB:
So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.
KJV:
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
NASB:
Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
KJV:
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
NASB:
And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored by acting wisely under the sun. This too is vanity.
KJV:
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
NASB:
Therefore I completely despaired of all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.
KJV:
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
NASB:
For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?