Job 19:24
With a pen of iron and lead — For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
In Context
23Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?
25That — I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
Cross References
Exodus 28:11the work of an engraver in stone, openings of a signet, thou dost open the two stones by the names of the sons of Israel; turned round, embroidered [with] gold, thou dost make them.
Exodus 32:16and the tables are the work of God, and the writing is the writing of God, graven on the tables.
Deuteronomy 27:8and written on the stones all the words of this law, well engraved.'
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 →