Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 23:1 | Then Iob answered, and said, |
| 23:2 | Euen to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heauier then my groning. |
| 23:3 | O that I knewe where I might find him! that I might come euen to his seate! |
| 23:4 | I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. |
| 23:5 | I would know the words which he would answere me, and vnderstand what he would say vnto me. |
| 23:6 | Will he plead against me with his great power? No, but hee would put strength in me. |
| 23:7 | There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be deliuered for euer from my Iudge. |
| 23:8 | Behold, I goe forward, but he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceiue him: |
| 23:9 | On the left hand where hee doeth worke, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himselfe on the right hand, that I cannot see him. |
| 23:10 | But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. |
| 23:11 | My foot hath held his steps, his way haue I kept, and not declined. |
| 23:12 | Neither haue I gone backe from the commaundement of his lippes, I haue esteemed the words of his mouth more then my necessary food. |
| 23:13 | But hee is in one minde, and who can turne him? and what his soule desireth, euen that he doeth. |
| 23:14 | For he performeth the thing that is appointed for mee: and many such things are with him. |
| 23:15 | Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. |
| 23:16 | For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: |
| 23:17 | Because I was not cut off before the darknes, neither hath he couered the darknes from my face. |
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.