Textus Receptus Bibles
Bishops Bible 1568
| 12:1 | Remember thy maker the sooner in thy youth, or euer the dayes of aduersitie come, and or the yeres drawe nye when thou shalt say, I haue not pleasure in them |
| 12:2 | Before the sunne, the light, the moone, and starres be darkened, and or the cloudes turne agayne after the rayne |
| 12:3 | When the kepers of the house shall tremble, and when the strong men shall bowe them selues, when the milners stand styll because they be so fewe, and when the sight of the windowes shall waxe dimme |
| 12:4 | When the doores in the streetes shalbe shut, and when the voyce of the milner shalbe layde downe, when men shall ryse vp at the voyce of the byrde, and when all the daughters of musicke shalbe brought lowe |
| 12:5 | When men shall feare in hye places, and be afraide in the streetes, when the Almonde tree shall florishe and be laden with the grashopper, and when all lust shal passe: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streetes |
| 12:6 | Or euer the siluer lace be taken away, and or the golden well be broken: Or the pot be broken at the well, and the wheele broken vpon the cesterne |
| 12:7 | Then shall the dust be turned agayne vnto earth from whence it came, and the spirite shall returne vnto God who gaue it |
| 12:8 | All is but vanitie (saith the preacher) all is but playne vanitie |
| 12:9 | The preacher was yet more wyse, and taught the people knowledge, he gaue good heede, sought out the ground, and set foorth many parables |
| 12:10 | His diligence was to finde out acceptable wordes, right scripture, & the wordes of trueth |
| 12:11 | For the wordes of the wyse are like prickes and nayles that go thorowe, of the auctoures of gatheringes which are geuen of one shephearde |
| 12:12 | Therefore beware my sonne of that doctrine that is beside this: for to make many bookes, it is an endlesse worke, and to muche studie weerieth the body |
| 12:13 | Let vs heare the conclusion of all thinges, Feare God, and kepe his commaundementes: for that toucheth all men |
| 12:14 | For God shall iudge all workes and secrete thinges, whether they be good or euyll |
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.