Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 23:1 | Iob aunswered, & said |
| 23:2 | Though my talke be this day in bitternesse, and my plague greater then my groning |
| 23:3 | O that I might know him, and finde him, and that I might come before his seate |
| 23:4 | I woulde pleade my cause before hym, and fill my mouth with argumentes |
| 23:5 | I woulde knowe what aunswere he woulde geue me, and vnderstande what he woulde say vnto me |
| 23:6 | Will he pleade against me with his great power? No, but he will make me the stronger |
| 23:7 | There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge |
| 23:8 | Behold, though I go forwarde I find him not: If I go backwarde, I can get no knowledge of hym |
| 23:9 | If I go on the left side where he doth his worke, I can not attayne vnto him: Againe, if I go on the right side, he hydeth him selfe that I can not see hym |
| 23:10 | But as for my way, he knoweth it, and tryeth me, that as the gold I may come foorth |
| 23:11 | My foote doth kepe his path, his hie way haue I holden, and will not go out of it |
| 23:12 | I will not forsake the commaundement of his lippes, I haue esteemed the wordes of his mouth more then myne appoynted foode |
| 23:13 | He is still at one poynt, and who can turne him? he doth as him listeth, and bringeth to passe what he will |
| 23:14 | He perfourmeth the thing that is appoynted for me, and many such thinges doth he |
| 23:15 | This is the cause that I shrinke at his presence, so that when I consider him, I am afrayde of hym |
| 23:16 | For God maketh my heart softe, and the almightie putteth me in feare |
| 23:17 | Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face |
Bishops Bible 1568
The Bishops' Bible was produced under the authority of the established Church of England in 1568. It was substantially revised in 1572, and the 1602 edition was prescribed as the base text for the King James Bible completed in 1611. The thorough Calvinism of the Geneva Bible offended the Church of England, to which almost all of its bishops subscribed. They associated Calvinism with Presbyterianism, which sought to replace government of the church by bishops with government by lay elders. However, they were aware that the Great Bible of 1539 , which was the only version then legally authorized for use in Anglican worship, was severely deficient, in that much of the Old Testament and Apocrypha was translated from the Latin Vulgate, rather than from the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. In an attempt to replace the objectionable Geneva translation, they circulated one of their own, which became known as the Bishops' Bible.