Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 39:1 | Knowest thou the time when the wild goates of the rocke bring forth? or canst thou marke when the hindes doe calue? |
| 39:2 | Canst thou number the moneths that they fulfill? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth? |
| 39:3 | They bowe themselues, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their sorrowes. |
| 39:4 | Their yong ones are in good liking, they grow vp with corne: they go forth, and returne not vnto them. |
| 39:5 | Who hath sent out the wild asse free? or who hath looosed the bands of the wild asse? |
| 39:6 | Whose house I haue made the wildernesse, and the barren lande his dwellings. |
| 39:7 | He scorneth the multitude of the citie, neither regardeth he the crying of the driuer. |
| 39:8 | The range of the mountaines is his pasture, and hee searcheth after euery greene thing. |
| 39:9 | Will the Unicorne be willing to serue thee? or abide by thy cribbe? |
| 39:10 | Canst thou binde the Unicorne with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleyes after thee? |
| 39:11 | Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great? or wilt thou leaue thy labour to him? |
| 39:12 | Wilt thou beleeue him that hee will bring home thy seed? and gather it into thy barne? |
| 39:13 | Gauest thou the goodly wings vnto the peacocks, or wings and feathers vnto the Ostrich? |
| 39:14 | Which leaueth her egges in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, |
| 39:15 | And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wilde beast may breake them. |
| 39:16 | She is hardened against her yong ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vaine without feare. |
| 39:17 | Because God hath depriued her of wisedome, neither hath he imparted to her vnderstanding. |
| 39:18 | What time she lifteth vp her selfe on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider. |
| 39:19 | Hast thou giuen the horse strength? hast thou clothed his necke with thunder? |
| 39:20 | Canst thou make him afraid as a grashopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. |
| 39:21 | He paweth in the valley, and reioyceth in his strength: hee goeth on to meet the armed men. |
| 39:22 | He mocketh at feare, and is not affrighted: neither turneth he backe from the sword. |
| 39:23 | The quiuer ratleth against him, the glittering speare and the shield. |
| 39:24 | He swalloweth the ground with fiercenesse and rage: neither beleeueth he that it is the sound of the trumpet. |
| 39:25 | Hee saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha: and he smelleth the battaile afarre off, the thunder of the captaines, and the shouting. |
| 39:26 | Doeth the hawke flie by thy wisedome, and stretch her wings toward the South? |
| 39:27 | Doeth the Eagle mount vp at thy commaund? and make her nest on high? |
| 39:28 | She dwelleth and abideth on the rocke, vpon the cragge of the rocke, and the strong place. |
| 39:29 | From thence she seeketh the pray, and her eyes behold a farre off. |
| 39:30 | Her yong ones also suck vp blood: and where the slaine are, there is he. |
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.