Textus Receptus Bibles
The Great Bible 1539
| 21:1 | Iob answered, and sayde: |
| 21:2 | O heare my wordes, and that shalbe my comfort of you. |
| 21:3 | Suffre me a lytle, that I maye speake also, and then laugh my wordes to scorne. |
| 21:4 | Is it for mans sake that I make thys disputacyon? Which yf it were so, shulde not my sprete be then in sore trouble? |
| 21:5 | Marcke me well, and be abasshed, and laye youre hand vpon youre mouth. |
| 21:6 | For when I consyder my selfe, I am afrayed, and my fleshe is smytten with feare. |
| 21:7 | Wherfore do wycked men lyue in health and prosperite, come to theyr olde age, and increase in ryches? |
| 21:8 | Their chyldren lyue in theyr syght, and theyr generacyon before theyr eyes. |
| 21:9 | Their houses are safe from all feare, and the rodd of God doth not smyte them. |
| 21:10 | Their bullocke gendreth, and that not out of tyme: theyr cowe calueth, and is not vnfrutefull. |
| 21:11 | They sende forth their children by flockes, and their sonnes lede the daunce. |
| 21:12 | They beare with them tabrettes and harpes, and haue instrumentes of musycke at their pleasure. |
| 21:13 | They spende their dayes in welthynesse: but sodenly they go downe to hell. |
| 21:14 | They saye also vnto God: go from vs, we desyre not the knowledge of thy wayes. |
| 21:15 | Who is the Allmyghtie, that we shulde serue hym? And what profyt shuld we haue to submyt our selues vnto him? |
| 21:16 | Lo, there is vtterly no goodnesse in them, therfore will not I haue to do with the councell of the vngodly. |
| 21:17 | How oft shall the candle of the wycked be put out? how oft commeth their destruccion vpon them? O what sorowe shal God geue them for their parte in hys wrath? |
| 21:18 | Yee, they shall be euen as haye before the wynde, and as chaffe that the storme caryeth awaye. |
| 21:19 | And though God saue their children from soch sorowe, yet wyll he so rewarde them selues, that they shall knowe it. |
| 21:20 | Their awne destruccion and misery shall they se with their eyes, and drincke of the fearfull wrath of the Almyghty. |
| 21:21 | For what careth he what become of his housholde after hys death, whan the nombre of his monethes is cut short? |
| 21:22 | In as moch then as God hath the hyest power of all, who can teach him eny knowledge? |
| 21:23 | One dyeth now when he is mightye and at hys best, ryche, and in prosperite: |
| 21:24 | euen when his bowels are at the fattest, and hys bones full of mary. |
| 21:25 | Another dyeth in sorowe and heuinesse, and neuer had good dayes. |
| 21:26 | They shall slepe both a lyke in the earth, & the wormes shall couer them. |
| 21:27 | Beholde, I knowe what ye thincke, yee, and the sotiltye that ye ymagyn agaynst me. |
| 21:28 | For ye saye: where is the princes palace? and where is the dwellynge of the vngodly: |
| 21:29 | haue ye not asked them that go by the waye? Doutlesse ye cannot denye their tokens, |
| 21:30 | that the wicked is kepte vnto the daye of destruccyon, and that the vngodly shalbe brought forth to the daye of wrath. |
| 21:31 | Who darre reproue him for his waye to hys face? Who wyll rewarde him for the vngraciousnesse that he doth? |
| 21:32 | Yet shall he be brought to his graue, and dwell among the heape of the deed. |
| 21:33 | Then shall he be fayne to be buried amonge the stones of the playne. All men also must folowe him, and there are innumerable gone before him. |
| 21:34 | How vayne then is the comforte that ye geue me? Doth not falshede remayne in all youre answers? |
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."