Using the New American Standard Bible, considered by some sources as the most literally translated of major twentieth century English Bible translations, the Discovery Bible employs H.E.L.P.S., the Hill Emphatic Language Pointer System, using 'discovery color' to point to places where the sacred originals convey a special insight (discovery) that is often beyond the reach of ordinary translation and special symbols to identify the colorful and vivid action conveyed by the different Greek verb tenses in the original text.