Textus Receptus Bibles
The Great Bible 1539
| 17:1 | My breth stincketh, my dayes are shortened. I am harde at deathes dore. |
| 17:2 | Froward men are wt me, and myne eye must continue in the bitternesse of them. |
| 17:3 | O deliuer me, and loke out one to be my suertie in thy sight, what is he that knoweth who will promes for me? |
| 17:4 | For thou hast with holden their hertes from vnderstandynge, therfore shalt thou not sett (them) vp on hye. |
| 17:5 | He promiseth his frendes parte of his good, but his awne children spende it. |
| 17:6 | He hath made me as it were a byworde of the people: where as afore, I was theyr ioye. |
| 17:7 | Myne eye is dymme, for very heuynesse, & all my strength is become like a shadow. |
| 17:8 | Uertuous men therfore shall well consydre this, and the innocent shall take parte agaynst the ypocrite. |
| 17:9 | The righteous also will kepe hys waye, and he that hath cleane handes, wyll euer be stronger and stronger. |
| 17:10 | As for you, turne you, and get you hence (I praye you) seynge I cannot fynde one wyse man amonge you: |
| 17:11 | My dayes are past, and my councels and thoughtes of my hart are vanysshed awaye |
| 17:12 | chaungynge the night into daye, and the light into darcknes. |
| 17:13 | Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, and I haue made my bed in the darcke. |
| 17:14 | I call corrupcyon my father, and the wormes call I my mother and my syster. |
| 17:15 | What helpeth then my longe taryenge? Or, who hath considred the thynge, that I loke for? |
| 17:16 | All that I haue, shall go downe into the pytt, and lye with me in the dust. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."