KJV:
He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
NASB:
Like a city that is broken into and without walls Is a man who has no control over his spirit.
KJV:
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
NASB:
The words of King Lemuel, the oracle which his mother taught him:
KJV:
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
NASB:
Is there anything of which one might say, "See this, it is new "? Already it has existed for ages Which were before us.
KJV:
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
NASB:
I said to myself, "Behold, I have magnified and increased wisdom more than all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge."
KJV:
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
NASB:
So I turned to consider wisdom, madness and folly; for what will the man do who will come after the king except what has already been done?
KJV:
What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
NASB:
What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?
KJV:
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
NASB:
I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.
KJV:
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
NASB:
He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.
KJV:
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
NASB:
That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by.
KJV:
So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
NASB:
Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.