Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 8:1 | Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, |
| 8:2 | How long wilt thou speake these things? and how long shall the wordes of thy mouth be like a strong wind? |
| 8:3 | Doth God peruert iudgement? or doth the Almightie peruert iustice? |
| 8:4 | If thy children haue sinned against him, and he haue cast them away for their transgression: |
| 8:5 | If thou wouldest seeke vnto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almightie: |
| 8:6 | If thou wert pure and vpright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousnes prosperous. |
| 8:7 | Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. |
| 8:8 | For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to the search of their fathers. |
| 8:9 | (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our dayes vpon earth are a shadow.) |
| 8:10 | Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, & vtter words out of their heart? |
| 8:11 | Can the rush growe vp without myre? can the flag growe without water? |
| 8:12 | Whilest it is yet in his greennesse, and not cut downe, it withereth before any other herbe. |
| 8:13 | So are the paths of all that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish: |
| 8:14 | Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spiders web. |
| 8:15 | He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shal hold it fast, but it shall not endure. |
| 8:16 | He is greene before the sunne, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden. |
| 8:17 | His roots are wrapped about the heape, and seeth the place of stones. |
| 8:18 | If he destroy him from his place, then it shal denie him, saying, I haue not seene thee. |
| 8:19 | Beholde, this is the ioy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. |
| 8:20 | Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will hee helpe the euill doers: |
| 8:21 | Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with reioycing. |
| 8:22 | They that hate thee shall be cloathed with shame, and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought. |
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.