Featured The "Literal" NASU? Really?

Psalms
40:2 : mud of the mire
40:4 : regard
40:12 : forsaken
41:3 : turn all his bed
43:4 : the gladness of my joy
44:4 : salvation
44:11 : for food
44:14 : shaking of the head
44:15 : the shame of my face has covered me

 

Psalms

46: 5 : at the turning of the morning
46:6 : gave forth
47:9 : has greatly exalted Himself
48:5 : were hurried away
48:6 : Trembling

 

Psalms
40:12 : forsaken
41:3 : turn all his bed
43:4 : the gladness of my joy
44:4 : salvation
44:11 : for food
44:14 : shaking of the head
44:15 : the shame of my face has covered me

 

Psalms

49:4 : open up
49:5 : supplanters
49:12 : honor...are destroyed
49:14 : away from his habitation
49:15 : hand
49:18 : his soul
49:19 : You
49:20 : honor

 

Psalms

50:13 : strong ones
50:18 : your part is with adulterers.
50:19 : You send your mouth loose in evil.
51:4 : pure when you judge
54:4 : The Lord is as those who sustain
55:5 : shuddering has overwhelmed me
55:6 : I would fly away and settle down
55:9 : Swallow up, O Lord
55:13 : a man according to my valuation
55:20 : He has profaned his covenant
55:21 : His mouth

 

Concluding passages from Psalms that I will list.

56:4 : What can mere flesh do to me?
56;6 : They watch my heels
58:7 : When he bends his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off
58:9 : the living
59:4 : Arouse Yourself to meet me
59:5 : Awake to visit all the nations
59:13 : Bring to an end

 

From info I had in an old thread regarding the TNIV (and I assume would apply to the NIV).

In Proverbs chapters 1-21 there are 229 occasions where the Lit. was noted in the margin and not in the text itself. The text has a more idiomatic reading.

In the HCSB of the same section there are 73 footnotes noting the Lit. while a more idiomatic expression is used in the text.

Staying with the HCSB :

The NASU has 17 of the Lit. in the text
The ESV has 15
The TNIV has 14

I would say that the TNIV/NIV is in pretty good company ;-)

 

With 378 views? Yes, indeed.

 

Judging from the above, you are a prime candidate for the NIrV.

 

In the text of the NASU: the miry clay
In the text of the NIV : the mud and the mire

Text of NASU : My heart has failed me
Text of NIV : my heart fails within me

Text of NASU : sustain him upon his sickbed
Text of NIV : sustain them on their sickbed

Text of NASU : my exceeding joy
Text of NIV : my joy and my delight

Text of NASU : victories
Text of NIV : victories

Text of NASU : to be eaten
Text of NIV : to be devoured

Text of NASU : A laughingstock
Text of NIV : shake their heads

Text of NASU : My humilation has overwhelmed me
Text of NIV : My face is covered with shame
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So in three of the above examples the NIV retains the so-called literal rendering.

 

NASU text : when morning dawns
NIV text : at break of day

NASU text : he raised
NIV text : he lifts

NASU text : He is highly exalted
NIV text : He is greatly exalted

NASU text : they fled in alarm
NIV text : they fled in terror

NASU text : panic
NIV text : Trembling
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The NIV got one of the five examples in a so-called more literal manner.

 

NASU : I will express
NIV : I will expound
[The NIV is closer. Expound means to explain. Express just means to communicate.]

NASU : my foes
NIV : wicked deceivers
[Not merely 'foes' as the NASU has it; wicked deceivers comes closer to the meaning.]

NASU : man in his pomp...perish
NIV : People despite their wealth...perish
[Pomp just means pageantry --showing off --while "wealth" is better here. Despite all their wealth --they will not endure.]

NASU : they have no habitation
NIV : far from their princely mansions

NASU : the power of Sheol
NIV : from the realm of the dead

NASU : while he lives
NIV : while they live

 

NASU : you associate with adulterers
NIV : you throw your lot in with adulterers

NASU : You let your mouth loose in evil.
NIV : You use your mouth for evil.

NASU : blameless when you judge
NIV : justified when You judge

NASU : The Lord is the sustainer of my soul.
NIV : The Lord is the one who sustaines me.

NASU : Fear and trembling come upon me.
NIV : Fear and trembling have beset me.
["Come upon me" is not as close as "beset me."

NASU : be at rest
NIV : be at rest

NASU : confuse
NIV : confuse

NASU : a man my equal
NIV : a man like myself

 

NASU : mere man
NIV : mere mortals

NASU : distort my words
NIV : twist my words

NASU : Arouse Yourself to help me and see!
NIV : Arise to help me; look on my plight!

NASU : punish all the nations
NIV : punish all the nations

NASU : to the ends of the earth
NIV : to the ends of the earth

 

Well, you'll have to do better to stay informed.

Spoken by someone who isn't informed.

Hardy har har. I suppose you are ignorant of my many threads commending the NLT, Norlie, MLB, REB, Phillips and many more.