Psalm 118:8 (New American Standard Bible)
8It is (A)better to take refuge in the LORD
Than to trust in man.
Psalm 118:8 (New International Version)
8 It is better to take refuge in the LORD
than to trust in man.
Psalm 118:8 (Amplified Bible)
Amplified Bible (AMP)
8It is better to trust and take refuge in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
Psalm 118:8 (New Living Translation)
New Living Translation (NLT)
8 It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to trust in people.
Psalm 118:8 (King James Version)
8It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
Psalm 118:8 (English Standard Version)
English Standard Version (ESV)
8(A) It is better to take refuge in the LORD
(B) than to trust in man.
Psalm 118:8 (Contemporary English Version)
8It is better to trust the LORD
for protection
than to trust anyone else,
Psalm 118:8 (New King James Version)
8 It is better to trust in the LORD
Than to put confidence in man.
Psalm 118:8 (New Century Version)
New Century Version (NCV)
8 It is better to trust the Lord
than to trust people.
Psalm 118:8 (21st Century King James Version)
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
8It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
Psalm 118:8 (American Standard Version)
8 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah Than to put confidence in man.
Psalm 118:8 (Young's Literal Translation)
8Better to take refuge in Jehovah than to trust in man,
Psalm 118:8 (Darby Translation)
Darby Translation (DARBY)
Public Domain
8It is better to trust in Jehovah than to put confidence in man;
Psalm 118:8 (New Life Version)
New Life Version (NLV)
Copyright © 1969 by Christian Literature International
Psalm 118:8 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)
Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003 by Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville Tennessee. All rights reserved.
8 It is better to take refuge in the LORD
than to trust in man. (A)
8 It is better to trust in the Lord than to trust in man.
Psalm 118:8 (New International Reader's Version)
8 It is better to go to the Lord for safety
than to trust in mere men.
Psalm 118:8 (New International Version - UK)
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
8It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
An excerpt from
http://everystudent.com/features/bible.h...WID=3466921512:
Has the Bible Changed and Been Corrupted Over Time?
Some people have the idea that the New Testament has been translated "so many times" that it has become corrupted through stages of translating. If the translations were being made from other translations, they would have a case. But translations are actually made directly from original Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic source texts based on thousands of ancient manuscripts.
For instance, we know the New Testament we have today is true to its original form because:
1. We have such a huge number of manuscript copies--over 24,000.
2. Those copies agree with each other, word for word, 99.5% of the time.
3. The dates of these manuscripts are very close to the dates of their originals (see link at end of this section).
When one compares the text of one manuscript with another, the match is amazing. Sometimes the spelling may vary, or words may be transposed, but that is of little consequence. Concerning word order, Bruce M. Metzger, professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary, explains: "It makes a whale of a difference in English if you say, 'Dog bites man' or 'Man bites dog'--sequence matters in English. But in Greek it doesn't. One word functions as the subject of the sentence regardless of where it stands in the sequence."5
Dr. Ravi Zacharias, a visiting professor at Oxford University, also comments: "In real terms, the New Testament is easily the best attested ancient writing in terms of the sheer number of documents, the time span between the events and the documents, and the variety of documents available to sustain or contradict it. There is nothing in ancient manuscript evidence to match such textual availability and integrity."6
The New Testament is humanity's most reliable ancient document. Its textual integrity is more certain than that of Plato's writings or Homer's Iliad. For a comparison of the New Testament to other ancient writings, click here.
The Old Testament has also been remarkably well preserved. Our modern translations are confirmed by a huge number of ancient manuscripts in both Hebrew and Greek, including the mid-20th century discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. These scrolls hold the oldest existing fragments of almost all of the Old Testament books, dating from 150 B.C. The similarity of the Dead Sea manuscripts to hand copies made even 1,000 years later is proof of the care the ancient Hebrew scribes took in copying their scriptures.
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