Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 25:1 | Then aunswered Bildad the Suhite, and sayde |
| 25:2 | Is there power and feare with him aboue, that maketh peace sitting in his hyghnesse |
| 25:3 | Is there any number of his armies, and vpon whom shal not his light arise |
| 25:4 | But how may a man compared vnto God, be iustified? or how can he be cleane that is borne of a woman |
| 25:5 | Beholde, the moone shyneth nothing in comparison to him, and the starres are vncleane in his sight |
| 25:6 | Howe much more then man that is but corruption, and the sonne of man which is but a worme |
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.