Job 19:24
by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
In Context
23I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
25But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 28:11Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings.
Exodus 32:16The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
Deuteronomy 27:8And you shall write distinctly upon these stones all the words of this law.”
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 →