Missing

(Pro 16:6 KJV)  By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

In the beginning of this chapter in the Septuagint, there are a number of verses that are just missing and some that are translated totally different.  I ask myself why might this verse in particular be left out?

Not being a genuine scholar who can read all the foreign languages I probably don’t have a clue, but I have suspicions.  This at the first the talks about salvation coming from the mercy of God rather than following the law.  The Septuagint was translated into Greek at a time after the rabbis had taken over the scholarship regarding the Bible.  I’m thinking that they would want to push their theological opinions as they were translating for a new group of Jews who did not, perhaps, understand Hebrew.

This is the problem of scholars.  They tend to fall into this trap of thinking they’re smarter than God.  It’s not just the Jewish scholars.  I think we see the same thing amongst Christians and definitely today among the Progressive Christians who are denying most of the truth of the Bible.

So?  Accept the truth, even when you don’t agree with it, or it doesn’t say what you wanted to say.  That is the nature of truth, especially in the world where fallen man seems to think that he wants to be as a God.