Versions of the 23rd Psalm first line

[Sower]

Don't be sorry ebia.  It's not your fault if you can't recognize "gold."    

Or mistake "fool's gold" for the real thing.

[ebia]

I'm not disputing the fact that there are plenty of errors in the A.V., but this isn't one of them - it simply isn't an error in British English.

I will take your word for it, but I can't imagine going into an English market and asking to buy and ear of corn and being sold wheat or barley.  Still the English language is a stange beast so I guess it is possible.  

You wouldn't - it would only refer to the thing while it's still on the stalk, which you're pretty unlikely to find in a market, but is dead common in a field.

Mind you, it just shows how careful you've got to be taking a translation across the Atlantic, let alone trying to read one 500 years old.

[Lance]

Anybody worried about the archaic words of the KJV only need to consult http://www.patriotist.com/kjv-glos.htm.

There are only a "handful."

[ebia]

It doesn't look very impressive at a quick glance:

1.  It doesn't included phrases, only single words.
2.  It seems to be missing important words that are still in use but have significantly changed in meaning, such as "charity".  This is the important one - if you don't recognise a word, you can go and look it up.  The real problem words are the one's people think they know, but which actually now mean something significantly different to when the A.V. was written.
3.  Despite being an apparently American site, I don't see mention of "corn" or other words that differ between Britain & America.

It looks far more like a list designed to "prove" that there aren't many problem words, than one designed to actually be helpful.

[Lance]

Well if you look carefully ebia you will find a way of submitting extra words.  Now is your chance to benefit mankind with your vast experience instead of being spoon-fed all the time.

[ebia]

Well if you look carefully ebia you will find a way of submitting extra words.  Now is your chance to benefit mankind with your vast experience instead of being spoon-fed all the time.

LOL

You post a recommendation to a website, I point out that it's a heap of rubbish, and you want me to put it right for you?  

[Lance]

Well if you want to be rude about my posts - go ahead you will get plenty of change but don't complain afterwards.

[Sower]

Anybody worried about the archaic words of the KJV only need to consult http://www.patriotist.com/kjv-glos.htm.

There are only a "handful."

Lance:

You're absolutely right. There are only a "handful" of archaisms in the KJV.  This Bible has been used by semi-illilterate as well as learned for hundreds of years and has brought millions to Christ. The Holy Spirit was certainly in control of the translators in that they used extreme care to be "painfully" faithful to the original Hebrew and Greek.  This is "Biblical English" if you will, and yet even unsaved scholars and specialists in English literature acknowledge the Bible as one of the classics of the English language, if not the mould in which the language wsas formed.

[Lance]

I thank God for sanity Sower.  

[ollie]

Whatever the translation, it tells us that if God be for us who can be against us.
And:
With God nothing is impossible and one will be filled and never be empty of anything.