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NASB | Psalm 12:6 ¶ The words of the LORD are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 12:6 ¶ The words and promises of the LORD are pure words, Like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times. |
Subject: Is the KJV "Supreme"? |
Bible Note: The King James Bible reigned supreme among English translations for nearly four centuries. Only in the last handful of years has the King James lost its position as the best-selling translation in the English language. The reason is not hard to find. Written in the Jacobean English of its time, it is ever-increasingly difficult to understand by the majority of modern readers. Many of its words don't mean the same now as then, its syntax is quiet different from modern English, punctuation is not the same. To get an idea of what the changes in language have done to the King James, go back a few years and try reading Chaucer in the original. No one can read original Chaucer with any real comprehension except specially trained scholars. And so, in like manner, the time is approaching when the King James will be unintelligible without special training in the archaic language. Parts of it are now..... The idea of some of the adherents to the King James only movement that the King James translators were somehow divinely inspired is totally without foundation. And the claim that modern translations and translators are corrupt is utter nonsense. --Hank |