KJV:
How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
NASB:
"How much more, if only the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great."
KJV:
And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king's son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
NASB:
The man said to Joab, "Even if I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I would not put out my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, 'Protect for me the young man Absalom!'
KJV:
In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.
NASB:
by loving those who hate you, and by hating those who love you. For you have shown today that princes and servants are nothing to you; for I know this day that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.
KJV:
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
NASB:
"Oh that my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my calamity!
KJV:
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
NASB:
"I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.
KJV:
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
NASB:
"Oh that My people would listen to Me, That Israel would walk in My ways!
KJV:
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
NASB:
"If only you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your well-being would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
KJV:
Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
NASB:
Oh, that You would rend the heavens and come down, That the mountains might quake at Your presence--
KJV:
If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
NASB:
"If I were to cause wild beasts to pass through the land and they depopulated it, and it became desolate so that no one would pass through it because of the beasts,
KJV:
If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
NASB:
"If a man walking after wind and falsehood Had told lies and said, 'I will speak out to you concerning wine and liquor,' He would be spokesman to this people.