Job 19:24
With an iron pen and lead, 1 Or graven in the rocks! 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
In Context
23For oh that my words were written, 1 And that they were recorded in a book forever, 1
25For I know that he is eternal who is about to deliver me, 1
Cross References
Exodus 28:11It shall be the work of the stone engraver’s art; as the graving of a seal thou shalt engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel.
Exodus 32:16And the tables were the work of God, and the writing the writing of God written on the tables.
Deuteronomy 27:8And thou shalt write upon the stones all 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 →