KJV:
I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
NASB:
I have seen all the living under the sun throng to the side of the second lad who replaces him.
KJV:
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
NASB:
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt.
KJV:
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
NASB:
Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one's labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.
KJV:
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
NASB:
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent among men--
KJV:
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
NASB:
For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
KJV:
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
NASB:
For as the crackling of thorn bushes under a pot, So is the laughter of the fool; And this too is futility.
KJV:
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
NASB:
All this I have seen and applied my mind to every deed that has been done under the sun wherein a man has exercised authority over another man to his hurt.
KJV:
Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
NASB:
So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
KJV:
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
NASB:
and I saw every work of God, I concluded that man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not discover; and though the wise man should say, "I know," he cannot discover.