Job 19:24

That they were hewn with an iron pen and [blackened with] lead for eternity in the hard rock!

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23Oh who would but grant, that my words might be written down! oh who would grant that they were entered in a book!

25And well I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he will remain as the last after the creatures of the dust [are passed away];

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Cross References

Exodus 28:11With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engraving of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel; fitted in settings of gold shalt thou make them.

Exodus 32:16And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tables.

Deuteronomy 27:8And thou shalt write upon the statues 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 →

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