Great blog post about translations conversing with one another.
Might be good if we all took a read just so we can laugh at all of this.
http://theblazingcenter.com/2015/02/if-all-the-bible-translations-had-a-dinner-party.html
(Why didn't the NASB or the NKJV get an invite to the dinner???)
If translations sat down for dinner...
Discussion in 'Bible Versions & Translations' started by Greektim, Feb 13, 2015.
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We can keep this conversation going.
New Jerusalem Bible (NJB): "Now if you agree with me we can all get together and finally order our meal. Waiter, I'll have the pork chops and a cup of wine."
Jewish Publication Society (JPS): "Oh my G_d! You didn't really mean to order pork, did you! You're killing me."
The New Testament in Modern English (Phillips):
Sitting closely beside the New International Version and Weymouth
I tell you plainly that am mystified that anyone could partake of a meal that Jesus eateth not. Rescind that order!
Tyndale: Younge man, Iesus sayde: 'I am nott come to destroye them but to fulfyll them.'
King James Version (KJV): I'll have the same meal that Tyndale is having but not on those plain plates, giveth me the royal treatment.
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That is too funny. I'll have to share it with my husband when he gets home.
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Reminded me of this:
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Very funny, although the KJV needs some work on its declensions (which shewest how difficult it be to get the Jacobean English correct when one speaketh it not.)
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NKJV: It was there but just kept saying 'Me, too" when King James spoke. -
And don't you realize that the Living Bible is the life of the party.
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I laughed for 5 minutes after reading this. Hilarious
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The Modern Language Bible confronts the NIV with "I coulda' bin a contendah!"
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Bystander: "Hey REB. Howya' doin'? I heard your English is the best of all translations."
REB : "I am British. We know the proper way to form a coherent sentence."
"Phillips here. Don't I merit some credit? I think I used our Mother Tongue quite well I must say with all due humility."
REB : "I do appreciate your work J.B.We Brits have to stick together"
Bystander : "I heard that. You speak like an American with that expression."
REB : "Perish the thought. We originated it in all likelihood."
Phillips : "Come now old chap. You'll give the Yanks the wrong idea about us." -
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NIV: I am really down on life. Nothing inspires me.
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May I quote myself? "The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart." (Ps. 119:8)
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Bay Psalter: Let us heare songs of prayse
Some musik with soule. vnto Iehovah while we graze.
Nothing dole.
Holman Christian Standard Version (HCSV): I'm really not into soul but the Messiah did love his psalms.
New Living Translation (NLT): Yeah no opera or rap, I'd like music everyone can understand.