Job 19:24
That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
In Context
23Oh would that my words were written! oh that they were inscribed in a book!
25And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;
Cross References
Exodus 28:11According to the work of an engraver in stone, as the engravings of a seal, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel; surrounded by enclosures of gold shalt thou make them.
Exodus 32:16And the tables [were] God's work, and the writing was God's writing, engraven on the tables.
Deuteronomy 27:8And thou shalt 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 →