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Bishops Bible 1568
| 8:1 | Then aunswered Bildad the Suhite, & said |
| 8:2 | Howe long wilt thou talke of such thinges? howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie wind |
| 8:3 | Doth God paruert the thing that is lawfull? or doth the almightie destroy the thing that is right |
| 8:4 | For seyng that thy sonnes sinned against him, did not he send them into the place of their iniquitie |
| 8:5 | If thou wouldest nowe resorte vnto God be times, and make thy prayer to the almightie |
| 8:6 | If thou wouldest liue a pure and godly life: shoulde he not awake vp vnto thee immediatly, and make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous |
| 8:7 | In so much that wherin so euer thou haddest litle afore, thou shouldest haue nowe great aboundaunce |
| 8:8 | Enquire I pray thee of the former age, and search diligently among their fathers |
| 8:9 | (For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe. |
| 8:10 | Shall not they shew thee, and tel thee, yea and gladly confesse the same, and vtter the wordes of their heart |
| 8:11 | May a rushe be greene without moystnesse? or may the grasse growe without water |
| 8:12 | No, but whilste it is nowe in his greennesse, though it be not cut downe, yet withereth it before any other hearbe |
| 8:13 | So are the pathes of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall come to naught |
| 8:14 | His confidence shalbe destroyed, and his trust shalbe a spiders webbe |
| 8:15 | He shal leane vpon his house, but it shal not stande: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure |
| 8:16 | It is a greene tree before the sunne, & shooteth foorth the braunches ouer his garden |
| 8:17 | The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountayne, and are folden about the house of stones |
| 8:18 | If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee |
| 8:19 | Behold it will reioyce by this meanes, if it may growe in another mould |
| 8:20 | Beholde, God will not cast away a vertuous man, neither wil he helpe the vngodly |
| 8:21 | Thy mouth shall he fill with laughing, and thy lippes with gladnesse |
| 8:22 | They also that hate thee shalbe clothed with shame, & the dwelling of the vngodly shall come to naught |
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.