A Woman of Chayil: Far Above Rubies by Jane Carole Anderson

[Nell]

Originally Posted by aron

Really?!? That's not what the RecV editors thought. "Here a little, there a little. . ." Sometimes,"There a lot."

In addition, I believe that the original Hebrew text is authoritative over any translation or commentaries. The credibility of any translation can only be determined by its faithfulness to the original text, but even at that, Jeremiah told us that in at least one instance, the scribes in Jer. 8 made God's word into a lie:

7 “Even the stork in the sky Knows her seasons;
And the turtledove and the swift and the thrush Observe the time of their [b]migration;
But My people do not know The ordinance of the Lord.]
8 “How can you say, ‘We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes. Has made it into a lie.
9 “The wise men are put to shame, They are dismayed and caught;
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, And what kind of wisdom do they have? NASB

There is no reason today to question the integrity of the translators. If I were a translator of the original Hebrew text of the Bible, God's word, I would rather have someone check my work and find any mistakes I might make. The work is too important to risk not getting it right.

Nell