Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
New American Standard Bible
They were engraved in the rock forever!
King James Version
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Holman Bible
by an iron stylus and lead!
International Standard Version
using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever.
A Conservative Version
that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead!
American Standard Version
That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!
Amplified
“That with an iron stylus and [molten] lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!
Bible in Basic English
And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!
Darby Translation
That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
Julia Smith Translation
They shall be cut in the rock with a style of iron and lead, forever.
King James 2000
That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!
Lexham Expanded Bible
[That] with a pen of iron and [with] lead they might be engraved on a rock forever!
Modern King James verseion
Oh that they were cut with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
would God they were graven with an iron pen in lead or in stone.
NET Bible
that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!
New Heart English Bible
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever.
The Emphasized Bible
That, with a stylus of iron and with lead, for all time - in the rock, they could be graven!
Webster
That they were graven with an iron pen in lead, in the rock for ever!
World English Bible
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
Themes
Iron » Made into » Graving tools
Job » Faith strained but victorious
Lead » Used in making inscriptions on stone
Pillars » Of memorial » Often had inscriptions
Interlinear
Chatsab
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 19:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
I Am Forgotten
23 Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven? 24 With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn. 25 That -- I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, With the point of a diamond, Graven on the tablet of their heart, And on the horns of your altars,
Exodus 28:11-12
the 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 28:21
and the stones are according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, openings of a signet, each by his name are they for the twelve tribes.
Exodus 32:16
and the tables are the work of God, and the writing is the writing of God, graven on the tables.
Deuteronomy 27:2-3
and it hath been, in the day that ye pass over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, that thou hast raised up for thee great stones, and plaistered them with plaister,
Deuteronomy 27:8
and written on the stones all the words of this law, well engraved.'