Okay. Which of those do you find to be the most controversial or confusing? Which have the biggest impact on your understanding of what the text was designed to convey?

Silent For Too Long said:

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Okay. Which of those do you find to be the most controversial or confusing? Which have the biggest impact on your understanding of what the text was designed to convey?

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The translation of "young woman" to "virgin" seems kinda important.

But beyond that, how many errors are there we don't know about because the words are accurate but the meaning was idiomatic?

It reminds me of when I was watching an old movie with Jack Lord in it. He's a hit man and he asks his employer, "Do you want me to draw a bead on the pigeon?" I understood he meant, "Do you want me to shoot the targeted individual?" But if that were translated directly into another language a couple hundred years from now, would it make any sense? You could get every word right and still get the meaning completely wrong.

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Martin Q. Blank said:

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Bad things happen to good people and we have no idea why.

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And Good things happen to bad people

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That's Ps. 73.

For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.