Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 39:1 | Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the appetite of the lyons whelpes, |
| 39:2 | When they couch in their places, and remaine in the couert to lye in waite? |
| 39:3 | Who prepareth for the rauen his meate, when his birdes crie vnto God, wandering for lacke of meate? |
| 39:4 | Knowest thou the time when the wilde goates bring foorth yong? or doest thou marke when the hindes doe calue? |
| 39:5 | Canst thou nomber the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring foorth? |
| 39:6 | They bow them selues: they bruise their yong and cast out their sorowes. |
| 39:7 | Yet their yong waxe fatte, and growe vp with corne: they goe foorth and returne not vnto them. |
| 39:8 | Who hath set the wilde asse at libertie? or who hath loosed the bondes of the wilde asse? |
| 39:9 | It is I which haue made the wildernesse his house, and the salt places his dwellings. |
| 39:10 | He derideth the multitude of the citie: he heareth not the crie of the driuer. |
| 39:11 | He seeketh out the mountaine for his pasture, and searcheth after euery greene thing. |
| 39:12 | Will the vnicorne serue thee? or will he tary by thy cribbe? |
| 39:13 | Canst thou binde the vnicorne with his band to labour in the furrowe? or will he plowe the valleyes after thee? |
| 39:14 | Wilt thou trust in him, because his strength is great, and cast off thy labour vnto him? |
| 39:15 | Wilt thou beleeue him, that he will bring home thy seede, and gather it vnto thy barne? |
| 39:16 | Hast thou giuen the pleasant wings vnto the peacockes? or winges and feathers vnto the ostriche? |
| 39:17 | Which leaueth his egges in the earth, and maketh them hote in the dust, |
| 39:18 | And forgetteth that the foote might scatter the, or that the wild beast might breake the. |
| 39:19 | He sheweth himselfe cruell vnto his yong ones, as they were not his, and is without feare, as if he trauailed in vaine. |
| 39:20 | For God had depriued him of wisedom, and hath giuen him no part of vnderstanding. |
| 39:21 | When time is, he mounteth on hie: he mocketh the horse and his rider. |
| 39:22 | Hast thou giuen the horse strength? or couered his necke with neying? |
| 39:23 | Hast thou made him afraid as the grashopper? his strong neying is fearefull. |
| 39:24 | He diggeth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: he goeth foorth to meete the harnest man. |
| 39:25 | He mocketh at feare, and is not afraid, and turneth not backe from the sworde, |
| 39:26 | Though the quiuer rattle against him, the glittering speare and the shield. |
| 39:27 | He swalloweth the ground for fearcenes and rage, and he beleeueth not that it is the noise of the trumpet. |
| 39:28 | He sayth among the trumpets, Ha, ha: hee smellleth the battell afarre off, and the noyse of the captaines, and the shouting. |
| 39:29 | Shall the hauke flie by thy wisedome, stretching out his wings toward the South? |
| 39:30 | Doeth the eagle mount vp at thy commandement, or make his nest on hie? (Job ) Shee abideth and remaineth in the rocke, euen vpon the toppe of the rocke, and the tower. : (Job ) From thence she spieth for meate, and her eyes beholde afarre off. : (Job ) His young ones also sucke vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is she. : (Job ) Moreouer ye Lord spake vnto Iob, and said, : (Job ) Is this to learne to striue with the Almightie? he that reprooueth God, let him answere to it. : (Job ) Then Iob answered the Lord, saying, : (Job ) Beholde, I am vile: what shall I answere thee? I will lay mine hand vpon my mouth. : (Job ) Once haue I spoken, but I will answere no more, yea twise, but I will proceede no further. : |
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
The Geneva Bible is one of the most influential and historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan. The language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous and because of this, most readers strongly preferred this version at the time.
The Geneva Bible was produced by a group of English scholars who, fleeing from the reign of Queen Mary, had found refuge in Switzerland. During the reign of Queen Mary, no Bibles were printed in England, the English Bible was no longer used in churches and English Bibles already in churches were removed and burned. Mary was determined to return Britain to Roman Catholicism.
The first English Protestant to die during Mary's turbulent reign was John Rogers in 1555, who had been the editor of the Matthews Bible. At this time, hundreds of Protestants left England and headed for Geneva, a city which under the leadership of Calvin, had become the intellectual and spiritual capital of European Protestants.
One of these exiles was William Whittingham, a fellow of Christ Church at Oxford University, who had been a diplomat, a courtier, was much traveled and skilled in many languages including Greek and Hebrew. He eventually succeeded John Knox as the minister of the English congregation in Geneva. Whittingham went on to publish the 1560 Geneva Bible.
This version is significant because, it came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids, which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indices, as well as other included features, all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study Bible.