Job 19:24
that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead!
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
In Context
23O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book,
25But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 28:11With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, thou shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the sons of Israel. Thou shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
Exodus 32:16And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets.
Deuteronomy 27:8And thou shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:24-29
Job's Confession of Faith; Happiness of the Redeemed. ( b. c. 1520.) 23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! 24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me. 28… Read the whole commentary →