Ease of Reading
KJV versus NIV

 

Check these out.

Also seems to me the ease of reading is on the side of the KJV or Authorized Version.

 

BIBLE VERSE

NIV

KJB or AV

Ezra 9:5

abasement

heaviness

2 Chr 15:14

acclamation

voice

Ezek 40:13

alcove

little chamber

2 Chr 13:22

annotations

story

Num 31:50

armless

chains

Rev 4:3

carnelian

sardine

I Ki 7:6

colonnade

porch

I Pet 4:4

dissipation

riot

Ex 28:20

filigree settings

enclosings

Is 59:13

fomenting

speaking

Jer 46:20

gadfly

destruction

Gen 41:3

gaunt

leanfleshed

Ezek 39:19

glutted

full

Ezra 6:11

impaled

hanged

Jer 48:30

insolence

wrath

Gen 12:9

Negev

south

Gen 6:4

Nephilim

giants

Ps 49:16

overawed

afraid

Is 16:6

overweening

very

Est 1:6

porphyry

red

 

Now maybe it's because I'm not "scholarly" but I really do understand the KJB better than I do the NIV.  I'll admit that I'd have to look up most of those words changed from the KJB.