Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 31:1 | I made a couenant with mine eyes; why then should I thinke vpon a mayd? |
| 31:2 | For what portion of God is there from aboue? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? |
| 31:3 | Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquitie? |
| 31:4 | Doeth not he see my wayes, and count all my steps? |
| 31:5 | If I haue walked with vanitie, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; |
| 31:6 | Let me bee weighed in an euen ballance, that God may know mine integritie. |
| 31:7 | If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaued to my hands: |
| 31:8 | Then let mee sow, and let another eate, yea let my off-spring be rooted out. |
| 31:9 | If mine heart haue bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wait at my neighbours doore: |
| 31:10 | Then let my wife grind vnto another, and let others bow downe vpon her. |
| 31:11 | For this is an heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquitie to bee punished by the Iudges. |
| 31:12 | For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would roote out all mine encrease. |
| 31:13 | If I did despise the cause of my man-seruant, or of my mayd-seruant, when they contended with me: |
| 31:14 | What then shall I do, when God riseth vp? and when hee visiteth, what shall I answere him? |
| 31:15 | Did not hee that made mee in the wombe, make him? and did not one fashion vs in the wombe? |
| 31:16 | If I haue withhelde the poore from their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile: |
| 31:17 | Or haue eaten my morsell my selfe alone, and the fatherlesse hath not eaten thereof: |
| 31:18 | (For from my youth hee was brought vp with me as with a father, and I haue guided her from my mothers wombe.) |
| 31:19 | If I haue seene any perish for want of cloathing, or any poore without couering: |
| 31:20 | If his loynes haue not blessed me, and if hee were not warmed with the fleece of my sheepe: |
| 31:21 | If I haue lift vp my hand against the fatherlesse, when I saw my helpe in the gate: |
| 31:22 | Then let mine arme fall from my shoulder-blade, and mine arme be broken from the bone. |
| 31:23 | For destruction from God was a terrour to mee: and by reason of his highnesse, I could not endure. |
| 31:24 | If I haue made golde my hope, or haue said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence: |
| 31:25 | If I reioyced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much: |
| 31:26 | If I beheld the Sunne when it shined, or the Moone walking in brightnesse: |
| 31:27 | And my heart hath bene secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: |
| 31:28 | This also were an iniquitie to be punished by the Iudge: For I should haue denied the God that is aboue. |
| 31:29 | If I reioyced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lift vp my selfe when euill found him: |
| 31:30 | (Neither haue I suffered my mouth to sinne by wishing a curse to his soule.) |
| 31:31 | If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! wee cannot be satisfied. |
| 31:32 | The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doores to the trauailer. |
| 31:33 | If I couered my transgressions, as Adam: by hiding mine iniquitie in my bosome: |
| 31:34 | Did I feare a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrifie me: that I kept silence, and went not out of the doore? |
| 31:35 | O that one would heare me! beholde, my desire is, that the Almightie would answere me, and that mine aduersary had written a booke. |
| 31:36 | Surely I would take it vpon my shoulder, and bind it as a crowne to me. |
| 31:37 | I would declare vnto him the number of my steps, as a prince would I goe neere vnto him. |
| 31:38 | If my land cry against me, or that the furrowes likewise thereof complaine: |
| 31:39 | If I haue eaten the fruits thereof without money, or haue caused the owners thereof to loose their life: |
| 31:40 | Let thistles grow in stead of wheat, and cockle in stead of barley. The words of Iob are ended. |
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.