Scripture changed in the NASB95 & NASB2020: Psalms 17.2

Ps 17.2

NASB95: “Let my judgment come forth from Your presence; Let Your eyes look with equity.”

The NASB95 changes “sentence” to “judgement”. The first use of “sentence in the KJV is De 17.9”

King James Version:

And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:

11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

Sentence changed to judgement

What can we determine from the definition within the KJV?

1. A sentence is a thing that is part of a judgement (“the sentence of judgement”).
2. A sentence and a judgement are different things (“sentence of the law…and according to the judgement…”).
3. A sentence is a verb (“Do according to the sentence”) that is done in a specific place (“of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee”).
4. A sentence is part of the law which can be taught (“sentence of the law which they shall teach thee”).
5. A sentence is something than can be shown (“sentence which they shall show thee”).
6. A judgement is something that is can be heard (“judgement “).

So the NASB95 has changed something that is part of a judgement into the judgement, changed a thing that is a verb and a visual thing into an auditory thing.

Anyone who has studied the difference between law and equity knows that law hears and equity sees. So in this case, the NASB95 authors have swapped law and equity, making the fiction truth and the truth fiction. And the realms have been commingled.

Equal changed to equity

KJV first use of equal:

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

Equal is referring to the value and the price, not about the system of equity itself. In fact, prices and monetary values are in the law realm, not that of equity, so again, we have a commingling.

The object has been dropped.

“Behold the things” has become “let your eyes look.” There is no thing to be beheld, it has become a passive suggestion for God to merely look…at nothing.

Equity changed to integrity in NASB2020

And apparently “equity” was not even the correct word, because it’s been changed to “integrity” in the NASB, an even further distancing from “equal,” and a dropping of the idea of equity itself.