Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 41:1 | None is so fearce that dare stirre him vp. Who is he then that can stand before me? |
| 41:2 | Who hath preuented mee that I shoulde make an ende? Al vnder heauen is mine. |
| 41:3 | I will not keepe silence concerning his partes, nor his power nor his comely proportion. |
| 41:4 | Who can discouer the face of his garmet? or who shall come to him with a double bridle? |
| 41:5 | Who shall open the doores of his face? his teeth are fearefull round about. |
| 41:6 | The maiestie of his scales is like strog shields, and are sure sealed. |
| 41:7 | One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them. |
| 41:8 | One is ioyned to another: they sticke together, that they cannot be sundered. |
| 41:9 | His niesings make the light to shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. |
| 41:10 | Out of his mouth go lampes, and sparkes of fire leape out. |
| 41:11 | Out of his nostrels commeth out smoke, as out of a boyling pot or caldron. |
| 41:12 | His breath maketh the coales burne: for a flame goeth out of his mouth. |
| 41:13 | In his necke remayneth strength, and labour is reiected before his face. |
| 41:14 | The members of his bodie are ioyned: they are strong in themselues, and cannot be mooued. |
| 41:15 | His heart is as strong as a stone, and as hard as the nether milstone. |
| 41:16 | The mightie are afrayd of his maiestie, and for feare they faint in themselues. |
| 41:17 | When the sword doeth touch him, he will not rise vp, nor for the speare, dart nor habergeon. |
| 41:18 | He esteemeth yron as strawe, and brasse as rotten wood. |
| 41:19 | The archer canot make him flee: ye stones of the sling are turned into stubble vnto him: |
| 41:20 | The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare. |
| 41:21 | Sharpe stones are vnder him, and he spreadeth sharpe things vpon the myre. |
| 41:22 | He maketh the depth to boyle like a pot, and maketh the sea like a pot of oyntment. |
| 41:23 | He maketh a path to shine after him: one would thinke the depth as an hoare head. |
| 41:24 | In the earth there is none like him: hee is made without feare. |
| 41:25 | He beholdeth al hie things: he is a King ouer all the children of pride. |
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Geneva Bible 1560/1599
The Geneva Bible is one of the most influential and historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan. The language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous and because of this, most readers strongly preferred this version at the time.
The Geneva Bible was produced by a group of English scholars who, fleeing from the reign of Queen Mary, had found refuge in Switzerland. During the reign of Queen Mary, no Bibles were printed in England, the English Bible was no longer used in churches and English Bibles already in churches were removed and burned. Mary was determined to return Britain to Roman Catholicism.
The first English Protestant to die during Mary's turbulent reign was John Rogers in 1555, who had been the editor of the Matthews Bible. At this time, hundreds of Protestants left England and headed for Geneva, a city which under the leadership of Calvin, had become the intellectual and spiritual capital of European Protestants.
One of these exiles was William Whittingham, a fellow of Christ Church at Oxford University, who had been a diplomat, a courtier, was much traveled and skilled in many languages including Greek and Hebrew. He eventually succeeded John Knox as the minister of the English congregation in Geneva. Whittingham went on to publish the 1560 Geneva Bible.
This version is significant because, it came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids, which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indices, as well as other included features, all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study Bible.