Job 19:24
That, with a stylus of iron and [with] lead, for all time—in the rock, they could be graven!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
In Context
23Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed:
25But, I, know that, my redeemer, liveth, and, as the Last over [my] dust, will he arise;
Cross References
Exodus 28:11with the work of a stone engraver, like seal-ring engravings, shalt thou engrave the two stones, after the names of the sons of Israel,—to be encircled with settings of gold, shalt thou make them.
Exodus 32:16Now as for, the tables, the work of God, they were,—and, as for the writing, the writing of God, it was, graven upon the tables.
Deuteronomy 27:8And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law doing it plainly and well.
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 →