Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 21:1 | Bvt Iob answered, and sayd, |
| 21:2 | Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations. |
| 21:3 | Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on. |
| 21:4 | Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled? |
| 21:5 | Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth. |
| 21:6 | Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh. |
| 21:7 | Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth? |
| 21:8 | Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes. |
| 21:9 | Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them. |
| 21:10 | Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe. |
| 21:11 | They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance. |
| 21:12 | They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs. |
| 21:13 | They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue. |
| 21:14 | They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. |
| 21:15 | Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him? |
| 21:16 | Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me. |
| 21:17 | How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath. |
| 21:18 | They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away. |
| 21:19 | God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it. |
| 21:20 | His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie. |
| 21:21 | For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off? |
| 21:22 | Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things? |
| 21:23 | One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie. |
| 21:24 | His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe. |
| 21:25 | And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure. |
| 21:26 | They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them. |
| 21:27 | Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong. |
| 21:28 | For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling? |
| 21:29 | May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes. |
| 21:30 | But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. |
| 21:31 | Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall reward him for that he hath done? |
| 21:32 | Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape. |
| 21:33 | The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable. |
| 21:34 | How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes? |
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
The Geneva Bible is one of the most influential and historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan. The language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous and because of this, most readers strongly preferred this version at the time.
The Geneva Bible was produced by a group of English scholars who, fleeing from the reign of Queen Mary, had found refuge in Switzerland. During the reign of Queen Mary, no Bibles were printed in England, the English Bible was no longer used in churches and English Bibles already in churches were removed and burned. Mary was determined to return Britain to Roman Catholicism.
The first English Protestant to die during Mary's turbulent reign was John Rogers in 1555, who had been the editor of the Matthews Bible. At this time, hundreds of Protestants left England and headed for Geneva, a city which under the leadership of Calvin, had become the intellectual and spiritual capital of European Protestants.
One of these exiles was William Whittingham, a fellow of Christ Church at Oxford University, who had been a diplomat, a courtier, was much traveled and skilled in many languages including Greek and Hebrew. He eventually succeeded John Knox as the minister of the English congregation in Geneva. Whittingham went on to publish the 1560 Geneva Bible.
This version is significant because, it came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids, which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indices, as well as other included features, all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study Bible.