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Keep in mind that these are such minor differences as “Spirit” or “spirit”, “axe” or “ax”, “lift” or “lifted”, “Abidah” or “Abida”, “cloths” or “clothes”, “colour” or “color”, “forbad” or “forbade”, “astonied” or “astonished”, “further” or “farther”.
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When comparing to a modern version, anyone can prove the King James Bible is the Word against error, whether using a 1611 Edition or a 1917 Scofield Edition, because there is one version-text and translation, and it is right every time. The differences within editions of the King James Bible are minor when comparing to modern versions. However, this does not mean that these variations within the King James Bible are unimportant. If they were unimportant, then there should be no desire nor effort to ever correct printing mistakes.
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The original 1611 read “flieth”, but even if a later publisher mistook the word for “fleeth”, any good dictionary will tell you that both words can mean the same thing.
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I believe that "fleeth" was a printer's error, and it is remarkable that both words do overlap in aspects of their meanings. The Oxford English Dictionary shows that in Northern England at a certain time, and more especially in Scotch English, "fly" was actually written as "flee", though this factor is unlikely to have had anything to do with the case of Nahum 3:16. A really important point is that no matter what has happened, nothing has actually been lost in the King James Bible: whether by printer’s mistakes in 1611, or whether by any printing mistakes that happened up to or in 1769. At no time was the Word of God lost and gone.