Job 19:24

with an iron pen and a plate of lead, or else be carved in stone?

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23Who will grant to me that my words may be written down? Who will grant to me that they may be inscribed in a book,

25For I know that my Redeemer lives, and on the last day I will rise out of the earth.

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Cross References

Exodus 28:11By the work of a sculptor and the skill of a jeweler, you shall engrave them with the names of the sons of Israel, enclosed and encompassed with gold.

Exodus 32:16and accomplished by the work of God. Also, the writing of God was engraved on the tablets.

Deuteronomy 27:8And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law, plainly and 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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