Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 8:1 | Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and saide, |
| 8:2 | Howe long wilt thou talke of these things? and howe long shall the wordes of thy mouth be as a mightie winde? |
| 8:3 | Doeth God peruert iudgement? or doeth the Almightie subuert iustice? |
| 8:4 | If thy sonnes haue sinned against him, and he hath sent them into the place of their iniquitie, |
| 8:5 | Yet if thou wilt early seeke vnto God, and pray to the Almightie, |
| 8:6 | If thou be pure and vpright, then surely hee will awake vp vnto thee, and he wil make the habitation of thy righteousnesse prosperous. |
| 8:7 | And though thy beginning be small, yet thy latter ende shall greatly encrease. |
| 8:8 | Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers. |
| 8:9 | (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe) |
| 8:10 | Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart? |
| 8:11 | Can a rush grow without myre? or can ye grasse growe without water? |
| 8:12 | Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe. |
| 8:13 | So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish. |
| 8:14 | His confidence also shalbe cut off, and his trust shalbe as the house of a spyder. |
| 8:15 | He shall leane vpon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall holde him fast by it, yet shall it not endure. |
| 8:16 | The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof. |
| 8:17 | The rootes thereof are wrapped about the fountaine, and are folden about ye house of stones. |
| 8:18 | If any plucke it from his place, and it denie, saying, I haue not seene thee, |
| 8:19 | Beholde, it will reioyce by this meanes, that it may growe in another molde. |
| 8:20 | Behold, God will not cast away an vpright man, neither will he take the wicked by the hand, |
| 8:21 | Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy. |
| 8:22 | They that hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, and the dwelling of the wicked shall not remaine. |
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.