Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 35:1 | Elihu spake moreouer, and said, |
| 35:2 | Thinkest thou this to bee right, that thou saydest, My righteousnesse is more then Gods? |
| 35:3 | For thou saydst, what aduantage will it bee vnto thee, and, what profite shall I haue, if I bee cleansed from my sinne? |
| 35:4 | I will answere thee, and thy companions with thee. |
| 35:5 | Looke vnto the heauens and see, and behold the clouds which are higher then thou. |
| 35:6 | If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or it thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou vnto him? |
| 35:7 | If thou be righteous, what giuest thou him? or what receiueth hee of thine hand? |
| 35:8 | Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art, and thy righteousnesse may profit the sonne of man. |
| 35:9 | By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to crie: they crie out by reason of the arme of the mightie. |
| 35:10 | But none saith, where is God my maker, who giueth songs in the night? |
| 35:11 | Who teacheth vs more then the beasts of the earth, and maketh vs wiser then the foules of heauen. |
| 35:12 | There they crie, (but none giueth answere) because of the pride of euill men. |
| 35:13 | Surely God wil not heare vanitie, neither wil the Almightie regard it. |
| 35:14 | Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet iudgement is before him, therefore trust thou in him. |
| 35:15 | But now because it is not so, hee hath visited in his anger, yet he knoweth it not in great extremitie: |
| 35:16 | Therefore doeth Iob open his mouth in vaine: he multiplieth words without knowledge. |
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.