well but suppose you are talking about reading Psalm 23 at someone’s funeral or Luke 2 at Christmas or some other passage at a wedding or other special occasion. Poetic might be good there, right?
Exactly, and it is my own personal preference.
I agree with you too Ric. Keep in mind that some of the new translations, not the NKJV or NASB, but things like NLT or ESV (and a lot of other weird ones) are not particularly accurate. There are hundreds of different translations, many of which are intended for ease of reading rather than accuracy. I think there’s something to be said about how the KJV has stood the test of time.