Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 6:1 | There is an euill which I haue seen vnder the Sun, and it is common among men: |
| 6:2 | A man to whom God hath giuen riches, wealth and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soule of all that he desireth, yet God giueth him not power to eate thereof, but a stranger eateth it: This is vanitie, and it is an euill disease. |
| 6:3 | If a man beget an hundred children, and liue many yeeres, so that the dayes of his yeeres bee many: and his soule be not filled with good, and also that he haue no buriall, I say, that an vntimely birth is better then he. |
| 6:4 | For he commeth in with vanitie, and departeth in darkenesse, and his name shall be couered with darkenesse. |
| 6:5 | Moreouer hee hath not seene the Sunne, nor knowen any thing: this hath more rest then the other. |
| 6:6 | Yea though he liue a thousand yeeres twice told, yet hath he seene no good: Doe not all goe to one place? |
| 6:7 | All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. |
| 6:8 | For what hath the wise more then the foole? what hath the poore, that knoweth to walke before the liuing? |
| 6:9 | Better is the sight of the eyes, then the wandering of the desire: this is also vanitie and vexation of spirit. |
| 6:10 | That which hath bene, is named already, and it is knowen that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier then he. |
| 6:11 | Seeing there be many things that increase vanitie, what is man the better? |
| 6:12 | For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the dayes of his vaine life, which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shal be after him vnder the sunne? |
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.