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King James Bible 1611
| 7:1 | Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? are not his dayes also like the dayes of an hireling? |
| 7:2 | As a seruant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his worke: |
| 7:3 | So am I made to possesse moneths of vanitie, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. |
| 7:4 | When I lie downe, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro, vnto the dawning of the day. |
| 7:5 | My flesh is cloathed with wormes and clods of dust, my skinne is broken, and become loathsome. |
| 7:6 | My dayes are swifter then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope. |
| 7:7 | O remember that my life is winde: mine eye shall no more see good. |
| 7:8 | The eye of him that hath seene me, shall see mee no more: thine eyes are vpon me, and I am not. |
| 7:9 | As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth downe to the graue, shall come vp no more. |
| 7:10 | Hee shall returne no more to his house: neither shall his place know him any more. |
| 7:11 | Therefore I will not refraine my mouth, I wil speake in the anguish of my spirit, I will complaine in the bitternesse of my soule. |
| 7:12 | Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch ouer me? |
| 7:13 | When I say, My bed shal comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint: |
| 7:14 | Then thou skarest mee with dreames, and terrifiest me through visions. |
| 7:15 | So that my soule chooseth strangling: and death rather then my life. |
| 7:16 | I loath it, I would not liue alway: let me alone, for my dayes are vanitie. |
| 7:17 | What is man, that thou shouldest magnifie him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart vpon him? |
| 7:18 | And that thou shouldest visite him euery morning, and trie him euery moment? |
| 7:19 | How long wilt thou not depart from me? nor let me alone till I swallow downe my spittle? |
| 7:20 | I haue sinned, what shall I doe vnto thee, O thou preseruer of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to my selfe? |
| 7:21 | And why doest thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquitie? for now shall I sleepe in the dust, and thou shalt seeke me in the morning, but I shall not be. |
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.