Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 29:1 | So Iob proceeded and went foorth in his parable, saying |
| 29:2 | O that I were as I was in the monethes by past, and in the daies when God preserued me |
| 29:3 | When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse |
| 29:4 | As it stoode with me when I was young, when God prospered my house |
| 29:5 | When the almightie was yet with me, when my children stoode about me |
| 29:6 | When my wayes ranne ouer with butter, and when the stonie rockes gaue me riuers of oyle |
| 29:7 | When I went out to the gate, euen to the iudgement seate, and when I prepared my seate in the streete |
| 29:8 | The young men saw me and hid them selues, and the aged arose, and stoode vp |
| 29:9 | The princes left of their talking, and layed their hand to their mouth |
| 29:10 | The mightie kept still their voyce, and their tongue cleaued to the roofe of their mouth |
| 29:11 | When the eare heard me, it blessed me: & when the eye sawe me, it gaue witnesse to me |
| 29:12 | For I deliuered the poore when he cryed, and the fatherlesse, and hym that had none to helpe hym |
| 29:13 | The blessing of him that was redy to perishe came vpon me, and I caused the widowes heart to reioyce |
| 29:14 | And why? I put vpon me righteousnesse, which couered me as a garment, and equitie was my crowne |
| 29:15 | I was an eye to the blinde, and a foote to the lame |
| 29:16 | I was a father to the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently |
| 29:17 | I brake the iawes of the vnrighteous man, and pluckt the spoyle out of his teeth |
| 29:18 | Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest: and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sande |
| 29:19 | For my roote was spread out by the waterside: and the deawe lay vpon my corne |
| 29:20 | Myne honour encreased more and more, & my bow was euer the stronger in my hande |
| 29:21 | Unto me men gaue eare, me they regarded, and with scilence they taried for my counsell |
| 29:22 | After my woordes they replied not, and my talke dropped vpon them |
| 29:23 | They wayted for me as for the raine: and gaped vpon me, as the grounde doeth to receaue the latter shoure |
| 29:24 | When I laughed, they beleued it not, & the light of my countenaunce would they not put out |
| 29:25 | When I agreed vnto their way, I was the chiefe, and sate as a king with his armie about him: and when they were in heauinesse, I was their comfortour |
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.