Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 9:1 | Then Iob answered, and sayd, |
| 9:2 | I knowe verily that it is so: for howe should man compared vnto God, be iustified? |
| 9:3 | If I would dispute with him, hee could not answere him one thing of a thousand. |
| 9:4 | He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath bene fierce against him and hath prospered? |
| 9:5 | He remoueth the mountaines, and they feele not when he ouerthroweth them in his wrath. |
| 9:6 | Hee remooueth the earth out of her place, that the pillars thereof doe shake. |
| 9:7 | He commandeth the sunne, and it riseth not: hee closeth vp the starres, as vnder a signet. |
| 9:8 | Hee himselfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and walketh vpon the height of the sea. |
| 9:9 | He maketh the starres Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the climates of the South. |
| 9:10 | He doeth great things, and vnsearcheable: yea, marueilous things without nomber. |
| 9:11 | Lo, when he goeth by me, I see him not: and when he passeth by, I perceiue him not. |
| 9:12 | Behold, when he taketh a pray, who can make him to restore it? who shall say vnto him, What doest thou? |
| 9:13 | God will not withdrawe his anger, and the most mightie helpes doe stoupe vnder him. |
| 9:14 | Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him? |
| 9:15 | For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge. |
| 9:16 | If I cry, and he answere me, yet woulde I not beleeue, that he heard my voyce. |
| 9:17 | For he destroyeth mee with a tempest, and woundeth me without cause. |
| 9:18 | He wil not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse. |
| 9:19 | If we speake of strength, behold, he is strog: if we speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade? |
| 9:20 | If I woulde iustifie my selfe, mine owne mouth shall condemne mee: if I would be perfite, he shall iudge me wicked. |
| 9:21 | Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life. |
| 9:22 | This is one point: therefore I said, Hee destroyeth the perfite and the wicked. |
| 9:23 | If the scourge should suddenly slay, should God laugh at the punishment of the innocent? |
| 9:24 | The earth is giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he? |
| 9:25 | My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing. |
| 9:26 | They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray. |
| 9:27 | If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee, |
| 9:28 | Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent. |
| 9:29 | If I be wicked, why labour I thus in vaine? |
| 9:30 | If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane, |
| 9:31 | Yet shalt thou plunge mee in the pit, and mine owne clothes shall make me filthie. |
| 9:32 | For he is not a man as I am, that I shoulde answere him, if we come together to iudgement. |
| 9:33 | Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both. |
| 9:34 | Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me: |
| 9:35 | Then will I speake, and feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still. |
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.