Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 39:1 | I sayde to my selfe I wyll take heede to my wayes, that I offende not in my tongue: I wyll kepe my mouth as it were with a brydell, whylest the vngodly is in my syght |
| 39:2 | I became dumbe through scilence, I helde my peace from speakyng of good wordes: but the more was my sorowe increased |
| 39:3 | My heart was hotte within me, and whyle I was thus musyng the fire kyndled: and at the last I spake with my tongue |
| 39:4 | O God make me to knowe mine ende, and the number of my dayes: that I may be certified howe long I haue to lyue |
| 39:5 | Behold thou hast made my dayes as it were an hand breadth long, & mine age is euen as nothing before thee: truely euery man is al together vanitie. Selah |
| 39:6 | Truely man walketh in a vayne shadowe, truely he and all his do disquiet them selues in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, & can not tel who shal vse them |
| 39:7 | And nowe Lord what wayte I after? truely my hope is euen in thee |
| 39:8 | Delyuer me from all my offences: and make me not a rebuke vnto the foolishe |
| 39:9 | I became dumbe, and opened not my mouth: for it was thy doyng |
| 39:10 | Take thy plague away from me: I am euen consumed by the meanes of thy heauy hande |
| 39:11 | Thou doest chasten man, rebukyng him for sinne: thou as a moth doest consume his excellencie, for in very deede euery man is but vanitie. Selah |
| 39:12 | Heare my prayer O God, and geue eares to my crying, holde not thy peace at my teares: for I am a strauger with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers were |
| 39:13 | Oh spare me a litle, that I may recouer my strength: before I go hence, and be no more [seene. |
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.