Job 19:24

And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

In Context

23If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

25But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;

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Cross References

Exodus 28:11With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.

Exodus 32:16The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on the stones.

Deuteronomy 27:8And put on the stones all the words of this law, writing them very clearly.

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 →

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