Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible (Oxford) 1769
| 11:1 | Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. |
| 11:2 | Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. |
| 11:3 | If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. |
| 11:4 | He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. |
| 11:5 | As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. |
| 11:6 | In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. |
| 11:7 | Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: |
| 11:8 | But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity. |
| 11:9 | Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. |
| 11:10 | Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity. |
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 This was effectively superseded by the 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney.