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:
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
NASB:
It is better to listen to the rebuke of a wise man Than for one to listen to the song of fools.
KJV:
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
NASB:
There was a small city with few men in it and a great king came to it, surrounded it and constructed large siegeworks against it.
KJV:
Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
NASB:
But there was found in it a poor wise man and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
KJV:
In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
NASB:
in the day that the watchmen of the house tremble, and mighty men stoop, the grinding ones stand idle because they are few, and those who look through windows grow dim;
KJV:
They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
NASB:
"All of them are wielders of the sword, Expert in war; Each man has his sword at his side, Guarding against the terrors of the night.
KJV:
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
NASB:
"Many waters cannot quench love, Nor will rivers overflow it; If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love, It would be utterly despised."
KJV:
Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
NASB:
"Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He entrusted the vineyard to caretakers. Each one was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.