To Know, Guard or Watch Over? (Ps. 1:6, Heb. "Yada")

When I was reading Psalm 1 some days ago, I realized that the HCSB translation had a quite different rendering of verse 6 than NKJV/NASB that I remembered from previous reading. Psalm 1:6 in HCSB states: For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin. Other translations that also uses “watches over”, is NLT-SE, TNIV, NIV and NRSV. The CEV translation uses “protects”.

Psa. 37:3–4 — New Depths Discovered in Translation Differences

Friday, Apr 23, 2010
Tags: Bible Translations Word Digging

Psa. 37:3–4 — New Depths Discovered in Translation Differences

It’s quite interesting and also surprising for me sometimes to notice how differently the old Hebrew scriptures are translated. I think this is especially true of the Psalms. This might be confusing and you might start to fear that you’re missing important parts. (I generally believe you get the main points correct in most translations, and whatever a translation misses, the Holy Spirit will reveal, as we can’t really understand any of this correctly without revelation from Him.

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