Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 16:1 | Then Iob answered, and said, |
| 16:2 | I haue heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. |
| 16:3 | Shall vaine words haue an ende? or what emboldeneth thee, that thou answerest? |
| 16:4 | I also could speake as yee doe: if your soule were in my soules stead, I could heape vp words against you, and shake mine head at you. |
| 16:5 | But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the mouing of my lips should asswage your griefe. |
| 16:6 | Though I speake, my griefe is not asswaged: and though I forbeare; what am I eased? |
| 16:7 | But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate al my companie. |
| 16:8 | And thou hast filled mee with wrinckles, which is a witnesse against me: and my leannesse rising vp in me, beareth witnesse to my face. |
| 16:9 | He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth vpon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes vpon me. |
| 16:10 | They haue gaped vpon me with their mouth, they haue smitten me vpon the cheeke reprochfully, they haue gathered themselues together against mee. |
| 16:11 | God hath deliuered me to the vngodly, and turned me ouer into the hands of the wicked. |
| 16:12 | I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my necke, and shaken me to pieces, and set me vp for his marke. |
| 16:13 | His archers compasse me round about, he cleaueth my reines asunder, and doeth not spare; he powreth out my gall vpon the ground. |
| 16:14 | He breaketh me with breach vpon breach, he runneth vpon me like a giant. |
| 16:15 | I haue sowed sackcloth vpon my skin, and defiled my horne in the dust. |
| 16:16 | My face is fowle with weeping, and on mine eye-lids is the shadow of death; |
| 16:17 | Not for any iniustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure. |
| 16:18 | O earth couer not thou my blood, and let my cry haue no place. |
| 16:19 | Also now, behold my witnesse is in heauen, and my record is on high. |
| 16:20 | My friends scorne me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God. |
| 16:21 | O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour. |
| 16:22 | When a few yeeres are come, then I shall goe the way whence I shall not returne. |
King James Bible 1611
The commissioning of the King James Bible took place at a conference at the Hampton Court Palace in London England in 1604. When King James came to the throne he wanted unity and stability in the church and state, but was well aware that the diversity of his constituents had to be considered. There were the Papists who longed for the English church to return to the Roman Catholic fold and the Latin Vulgate. There were Puritans, loyal to the crown but wanting even more distance from Rome. The Puritans used the Geneva Bible which contained footnotes that the king regarded as seditious. The Traditionalists made up of Bishops of the Anglican Church wanted to retain the Bishops Bible.
The king commissioned a new English translation to be made by over fifty scholars representing the Puritans and Traditionalists. They took into consideration: the Tyndale New Testament, the Matthews Bible, the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible. The great revision of the Bible had begun. From 1605 to 1606 the scholars engaged in private research. From 1607 to 1609 the work was assembled. In 1610 the work went to press, and in 1611 the first of the huge (16 inch tall) pulpit folios known today as "The 1611 King James Bible" came off the printing press.