Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 39:1 | I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. |
| 39:2 | I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. |
| 39:3 | My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, |
| 39:4 | LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. |
| 39:5 | Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. |
| 39:6 | Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. |
| 39:7 | And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. |
| 39:8 | Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. |
| 39:9 | I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. |
| 39:10 | Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. |
| 39:11 | When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah. |
| 39:12 | Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. |
| 39:13 | O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. |
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
By the mid-18th century the wide variation in the various modernized printed texts of the Authorized Version, combined with the notorious accumulation of misprints, had reached the proportion of a scandal, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge both sought to produce an updated standard text. First of the two was the Cambridge edition of 1760, the culmination of twenty-years work by Francis Sawyer Parris, who died in May of that year. This 1760 edition was reprinted without change in 1762 and in John Baskerville's fine folio edition of 1763. This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.