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b'Welcome to Day 1514 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomBible Study \\u2013 Formatting Text and Font Styles \\u2013 Meditation MondayWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.\\xa0Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend; I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.\\xa0Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. This is Day 1514 of our Trek, and it is time for Meditation Monday.\\xa0Taking time to relax, refocus, and reprioritize our lives is crucial in order to create a living legacy.\\xa0For you, it may just be time alone for quiet reflection.\\xa0You may utilize structured meditation practices. In my life, Meditation includes reading and reflecting on God\\u2019s Word and in prayer.\\xa0It is a time to renew my mind, refocus on what is most important, and making sure that I am nurturing my soul, mind, and body.\\xa0As you come along with me on our trek each Meditation Monday, it is my hope and prayer that you, too, will experience a time for reflection and renewing of your mind.
\\xa0We are continuing our series this week on Meditation Monday as we focus on Mastering Bible Study through a series of brief insights from Hebrew Scholar, Dr. Michael S. Heiser.\\xa0Our current insights are focusing on what the Bible is. Today let us meditate on:
Bible Study \\u2013 Formatting Text and Fonts Styles\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Insight Thirty-Five: Pay Attention to the Formatting of Your Bible Translation
No, I\\u2019m not recommending that you need a degree in book design for productive Bible study. I am suggesting that you pay attention to how the biblical text is presented in your translation. Believe it or not, Bible publishers use specific formatting conventions to draw the reader\\u2019s eye to the text features that do indeed assist in Bible study.
Let\\u2019s start with something every English Bible reader has seen but likely not considered: line breaks and indenting. Look at Psalm 1:1-2 in the ESV:
Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked.
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
but his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law, he meditates day and night.
If you read this in today\\u2019s Wisdom Journal, notice how the formatting breaks the poem into stanzas, clearly showing which thoughts are in parallel to each other. Proper formatting is crucial for drawing attention to how Hebrew poetry works. Now look at the same passage in the 1769 edition of the King James Version:
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

There is no formatting, no line breaks, and indentation, to bring out the parallelisms. The text is presented as simple prose like a historical narrative would be. The symmetry of the lines is completely lost.
Here\\u2019s another example. Modern translations segment chapters into pericopes, sections of prose that the grammar of the original text marks off as thought units. Observing the pericope divisions helps Bible students discern the immediate context of a verse within that unit.
So, yes, formatting matters. Don\\u2019t just read your Bible. Observe it.
\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Insight Thirty-Six: Font Styles MattersWhat difference could font style mean in your Bible study? You\\u2019d be surprised.
Let\\u2019s talk about italics. Did you know that some English translations use italics to indicate words in the translation that have been supplied for the sake of English but for which no word in the original language exists? For example, Genesis 1:2 reads as follows in many editions...'