Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 12:1 | And Iob answered, and sayd, |
| 12:2 | No doubt but ye are the people, and wisedome shall die with you. |
| 12:3 | But I haue vnderstanding as well as you, I am not inferiour to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? |
| 12:4 | I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he answereth him: the iust vpright man is laughed to scorne. |
| 12:5 | He that is ready to slippe with his feet, is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease. |
| 12:6 | The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that prouoke God are secure, into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. |
| 12:7 | But aske now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the foules of the aire, and they shall tell thee. |
| 12:8 | Or speake to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare vnto thee. |
| 12:9 | Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? |
| 12:10 | In whose hand is the soule of euery liuing thing, and the breath of all mankinde. |
| 12:11 | Doeth not the eare trie wordes? And the mouth taste his meate? |
| 12:12 | With the ancient is wisedome, and in length of dayes, vnderstanding. |
| 12:13 | With him is wisedome & strength, he hath counsell and vnderstanding. |
| 12:14 | Behold, he breaketh downe, and it cannot be built againe: hee shutteth vp a man, and there can be no opening. |
| 12:15 | Behold, hee withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: also hee sendeth them out, and they ouerturne the earth. |
| 12:16 | With him is strength & wisedome: the deceiued, and the deceiuer, are his. |
| 12:17 | He leadeth counsellers away spoiled, and maketh the Iudges fooles. |
| 12:18 | He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loines with a girdle. |
| 12:19 | He leadeth Princes away spoiled, and ouerthroweth the mightie. |
| 12:20 | He remooueth away the speech of the trustie, and taketh away the vnderstanding of the aged. |
| 12:21 | He powreth contempt vpon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mightie. |
| 12:22 | Hee discouereth deepe things out of darkenesse, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death. |
| 12:23 | He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: hee inlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them againe. |
| 12:24 | He taketh away the heart of the chiefe of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wildernes where there is no way. |
| 12:25 | They grope in the darke without light, and hee maketh them to stagger like a drunken man. |
King James Bible 1611
The commissioning of the King James Bible took place at a conference at the Hampton Court Palace in London England in 1604. When King James came to the throne he wanted unity and stability in the church and state, but was well aware that the diversity of his constituents had to be considered. There were the Papists who longed for the English church to return to the Roman Catholic fold and the Latin Vulgate. There were Puritans, loyal to the crown but wanting even more distance from Rome. The Puritans used the Geneva Bible which contained footnotes that the king regarded as seditious. The Traditionalists made up of Bishops of the Anglican Church wanted to retain the Bishops Bible.
The king commissioned a new English translation to be made by over fifty scholars representing the Puritans and Traditionalists. They took into consideration: the Tyndale New Testament, the Matthews Bible, the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible. The great revision of the Bible had begun. From 1605 to 1606 the scholars engaged in private research. From 1607 to 1609 the work was assembled. In 1610 the work went to press, and in 1611 the first of the huge (16 inch tall) pulpit folios known today as "The 1611 King James Bible" came off the printing press.