How does the King James version rank?

Answer 1

The question of how The KJV ranks as a translation has been and continues to be a subject of extreme controversy, within the scholarly community.

at the simplest level, the language used within the King James while beautiful in its structure, it is also archaic and bares little contemporary relevance to the modern reader.

on a deeper and more important level, the major issue is, with how it is translated. there is major issues within the Greek and Hebrew translation, it's problems stem from being based on different and less accurate manuscripts which just compounded the problem of translation.

so how does it rank? well as a translation it is pretty poor, with The NASB and the ESV being the most accurate, but due to the language it is still for some, a very useful devotional tool.