<The modern Protestant translations are particularly awful.<
I also criticize them, but don’t forget your own official American Bible: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Ancients_on_Scripture.html#Remarks
Yes, “Catholic” NAB is horrible and completely un-Catholic. The translation is bland and imprecise; the commentary is straight heretical.
You want to know what the Bible really says, use Greek and Hebrew interlinears or read Douay, with occasional check with KJV. Modern translations are a product of 20c.: if you liked two world wars, militant atheism, wholesale slaughter of European Jews and Russian farmers, artificial selection of obedient coward race in half the globe, and islamized Europe, well, sure, then you might find something to like in the 20c translations of the Holy Scripture, too.