...Not all Bible readers have good dictionaries (and this sense of "welter" isn't in bad ones). They certainly don't carry them with them wherever they take their Bibles or hear them read. Does your congregation? Would they understand this translation if it was read out to them?
Do you mean that readers of the Bible cannot look up words with which they are unfamiliar? Bohu hardly seems to have been a familiar Hebrew word.
Then we have "and
God’s breath hovering over the waters"
I don't like "breath" myself. I prefer spirit, wind--going in that direction.
with no main verb, a clear
grammatical error which would be marked wrong in first grade.
He has not written in the 'to be' verbs in the two adjective clauses in an attempt to capture the rhythm of the Hebrew. It is very readable because the first clause in the series of three has the verb. We know what he has done.
... I would give him an A for diction and for having such a respect and feel for the text's structure.OK, but a D for grammar and punctuation and an F for the translation error which he didn't actually intend.
Hey, Bro., be happy! :-)
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