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Doest Thou Well To Be Angry?
by NCT on Aug 20, 2011 2:09 PM EDT
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PrintSo the Georgia fan made plans to travel to Capital City, and sat by his Facebook, and there made him a booth, secure in his beloved Traditions, till he might see what would become of the Silver Britches. And Crazy Old Testament God prepared a uniform of red helmets, red jerseys, and silver britches, and made it a comfort to the Georgia fan, that they might remind him of Glorious Days, to deliver him from 6-7. So the Georgia fan was exceeding glad of the Tradition. But COTG prepared a Swoosh when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the Tradition that it withered. And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that COTG prepared a vehement glare of red jerseys, red pants, and shocking red helmet band that burned upon the eyes of the Georgia fan, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. And COTG said to the Georgia fan, Doest thou well to be angry for the Tradition? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. Then said COTG, Thou hast had pity on the Tradition, for the which thou hast not suffered a single two-a-day, neither blocked a Big Bad John; which came up in a night, and perished in a night, BUT ONLY FOR A NIGHT. And should not I spare the wishes of your team, those in the arena, wherein are more than fourscore persons that desireth the bada$$ Oval G and dog-collar motif on their left hand and their right hand; and also much Bronco-busting?
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EXCEPTIONAL WORK, NCT. I AM PLEASED AND SHALL REWARD YOU.
/turns half of NCT’s wardrobe Tennessee orange and the other half Florida orange.
by vineyarddawg on Aug 20, 2011 3:37 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
I had to really concentrate to read it.
not cool on a saturday.
by Mark Mandingo on Aug 20, 2011 7:09 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Lazy "writing" on my part.
Blame the Jacobians for archaic syntax and paragraph structure. But it didn’t sound as good in NIV — artistic choice.
by NCT on Aug 20, 2011 8:44 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I prefer the living dawg myself
by Mark Mandingo on Aug 20, 2011 8:52 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I only use the King, Tavarres Version.
by UGAVike on Aug 20, 2011 9:08 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I have an original Goldberg bible
by Mark Mandingo on Aug 20, 2011 9:20 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
I like to go even more old-school.
I use the Septugagint.
by vineyarddawg on Aug 21, 2011 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions
I like The Message version.
It appeals to my young, hip self.
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
Groovy
I was unfamiliar with it, but I just clicked around and read some Jonah in The Message. However, I must maintain that, under the circumstances, “Doest thou well to be angry?” is more fitting than “What do you have to be angry about?”
The Message is a good complement, but a poor substitute.
It’s useful for fleshing out difficult passages, and I like it when our pastor uses it to clarify the Scripture reading, but the sacredness of sacred texts is best underscored through the use of higher, rather than ordinary, language.
One of my few regrets from my wedding is that we did not clarify beforehand for the officiant that the Bible verse (Ruth 1:16) should be read from the King James Version, rather than from the New International Version. The message of the verse is best communicated (in my opinion) through the use of “entreat me not” and “whither thou goest.” “Thy God, my God” has a nice rhythm, as well.
Go 'Dawgs!
I like to go to biblegateway.com and look at a passage in like 20 different translations.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
by tankertoad on Aug 24, 2011 7:07 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Indeed.
I usually stick to New American Standard and either the NIV or the Darby Bible.
NASB is one of the newest translations to actually go back to the oldest Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts in an attempt to create a literal, grammatically-correct translation that is more readable to modern eyes. I use it for most of my reading and find it very useful for study.
Everyone is familiar with the NIV, and the Darby Bible was basically the NIV of the late 1800’s (though, like the modern NIV, it has its critics because it is not a literal translation… which it was never intended to be).
by vineyarddawg on Aug 24, 2011 8:26 PM EDT up reply actions
A good friend is a Hebrew scholar...
… and he laments that the poetry of the Psalms is better in the King James than in the original.
by first and thom on Aug 25, 2011 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions
You can't really appreciate the poetic nature of the Psalms...
… until you’ve read them in the original Klingon.
by vineyarddawg on Aug 25, 2011 11:46 AM EDT up reply actions
What does your Hebrew scholar friend say about Lamentations?
Sorry. It’s the best I could do in a hurry.
He says that Hebrew is an intense and emphatic language no matter the book...
…but that it sounds like crap. To be fair, he is HSL, and the “S” stands for sixth or seventh, I fear. I believe the exact quote was like this: “All the pathos of the Psalms in Hebrew is still no match for high Elizabethan English. It’s not even fair.”
by first and thom on Aug 25, 2011 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions
NCT
Sometimes, you got to read something that is good about 10 times before it really hits you how good it is.
I mean this without malice to the many fine and well written pieces here on dawgsports:
This is the absolute finest piece ever posted here. Somethings are just too good to get at first. I am certain 75% or greater of anyone who reads this even “gets it”.
This, for anyone else out there, is why this site is different. No stupid links or videos or trash talk. Pure literary mastery.
Bravissimo.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
by tankertoad on Aug 20, 2011 11:25 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I appreciate the kind words, BUT
This post involved a mere momentary flash of inspiration — inspiration that required little or no effort, because this part of Jonah is among my very favorite parts of the Old Testament, if not my most favorite. After that, it was merely a cut-and-paste job substituting a few things here or there. But thank you, all the same.
by NCT on Aug 20, 2011 11:43 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Flashes of inspiration have created worlds.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
by tankertoad on Aug 20, 2011 11:51 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
According to the Old Testament, . . .
. . . this is, in fact, literally true.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Aug 21, 2011 12:03 AM EDT up reply actions
I disagree...
Any discussion of Auburn or Florida on this site is inherently and unavoidably “trash talk.”
But I agree, NCT’s post was great.
"Don't go ninja'n nobody that don't need ninja'n!" ~ Kung Fu Hillbilly.
Nay!
Any discussion of Auburn and Florida is a measured observation about the machinations of said institutions. Also to note that they are a bunch of bleep-bags!
Success is never final. --Winston Churchill
Well done, NCT.
The final sentence made everything better. I’d like to buy you a drink.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
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