KJV:
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
NASB:
Take hold of instruction; do not let go. Guard her, for she is your life.
KJV:
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
NASB:
He also who is slack in his work Is brother to him who destroys.
KJV:
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
NASB:
If you are slack in the day of distress, Your strength is limited.
KJV:
It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
NASB:
"Scarcely had I left them When I found him whom my soul loves; I held on to him and would not let him go Until I had brought him to my mother's house, And into the room of her who conceived me."
KJV:
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
NASB:
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble And dry grass collapses into the flame, So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away as dust; For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
KJV:
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
NASB:
Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every man's heart will melt.
KJV:
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
NASB:
We have heard the report of it; Our hands are limp. Anguish has seized us, Pain as of a woman in childbirth.
KJV:
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
NASB:
Then the officials said to the king, "Now let this man be put to death, inasmuch as he is discouraging the men of war who are left in this city and all the people, by speaking such words to them; for this man is not seeking the well-being of this people but rather their harm."
KJV:
Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
NASB:
"Damascus has become helpless; She has turned away to flee, And panic has gripped her; Distress and pangs have taken hold of her Like a woman in childbirth.