Job 19:24

With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 me that my words may be written? Who will grant me that they may be marked down in a book?

25For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and in the last day I shall rise out of the earth.

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Cross References

Exodus 28:11With the work of an engraver and the graving of a jeweller, thou shalt engrave them with the names of the children of Israel, set in gold and compassed about:

Exodus 32:16And made by the work of God: the writing also of God was graven in the tables.

Deuteronomy 27:8And thou shalt 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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