KJV:
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
NASB:
"Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills I was brought forth;
KJV:
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
NASB:
The north wind brings forth rain, And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.
KJV:
The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
NASB:
Like an archer who wounds everyone, So is he who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by.
KJV:
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
NASB:
They will be terrified, Pains and anguish will take hold of them; They will writhe like a woman in labor, They will look at one another in astonishment, Their faces aflame.
KJV:
Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.
NASB:
Be ashamed, O Sidon; For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying, "I have neither travailed nor given birth, I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins."
KJV:
As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
NASB:
When the report reaches Egypt, They will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.
KJV:
Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
NASB:
As the pregnant woman approaches the time to give birth, She writhes and cries out in her labor pains, Thus were we before You, O LORD.
KJV:
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
NASB:
We were pregnant, we writhed in labor, We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind. We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth, Nor were inhabitants of the world born.