KJV:
Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.
NASB:
Wisdom strengthens a wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
KJV:
And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
NASB:
So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out from the holy place, and they are soon forgotten in the city where they did thus. This too is futility.
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:
The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
NASB:
The toil of a fool so wearies him that he does not even know how to go to a city.
KJV:
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
NASB:
'I must arise now and go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I must seek him whom my soul loves.' I sought him but did not find him.
KJV:
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
NASB:
"The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me, And I said, 'Have you seen him whom my soul loves?'
KJV:
The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
NASB:
"The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me, They struck me and wounded me; The guardsmen of the walls took away my shawl from me.
KJV:
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
NASB:
Your land is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire, Your fields-- strangers are devouring them in your presence; It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.