KJV:
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
NASB:
If no one knows what will happen, who can tell him when it will happen?
KJV:
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
NASB:
No man has authority to restrain the wind with the wind, or authority over the day of death; and there is no discharge in the time of war, and evil will not deliver those who practice it.
KJV:
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
NASB:
So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
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:
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
NASB:
For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten.
KJV:
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
NASB:
Indeed their love, their hate and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share in all that is done under the sun.