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King James Bible 1611
| 10:1 | Dead flies cause the oyntment of the Apothecarie to send foorth a stinking sauour: so doeth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisedome and honour. |
| 10:2 | A wise mans heart is at his right hand: but a fooles heart at his left. |
| 10:3 | Yea also when hee that is a foole walketh by the way, his wisedome faileth him, and hee saith to euery one that he is a foole. |
| 10:4 | If the spirit of the ruler rise vp against thee, leaue not thy place; for yeelding pacifieth great offences. |
| 10:5 | There is an euill which I haue seene vnder the Sunne, as an errour, which proceedeth from the ruler. |
| 10:6 | Folly is set in great dignitie; and the rich sit in lowe place. |
| 10:7 | I haue seene seruants vpon horses, and princes walking as seruants vpon the earth. |
| 10:8 | He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it; and who so breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him. |
| 10:9 | Who so remoueth stones, shall be hurt therewith: and hee that cleaueth wood, shalbe endangered thereby. |
| 10:10 | If the yron be blunt, and he doe not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisedome is profitable to direct. |
| 10:11 | Surely the serpent will bite without inchauntment, and a babbler is no better. |
| 10:12 | The words of a wise mans mouth are gratious: but the lips of a foole will swallow vp himselfe. |
| 10:13 | The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishnesse: and the end of his talke is mischieuous madnesse. |
| 10:14 | A foole also is full of words; a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall bee after him who can tell him? |
| 10:15 | The labour of the foolish wearyeth euery one of them; because hee knoweth not how to goe to the citie. |
| 10:16 | Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eate in the morning. |
| 10:17 | Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the sonne of nobles, and thy princes eate in due season, for strength, and not for drunkennesse. |
| 10:18 | By much slouthfulnesse the building decayeth; and through idlenesse of the hands the house droppeth through. |
| 10:19 | A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. |
| 10:20 | Curse not the king, no not in thy thought, and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber: for a bird of the aire shall carry the voyce, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. |
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.