Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead!
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.
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!
Youngs Literal Translation
With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
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 O that my words were now written! O that they were inscribed in a book, 24 that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead! 25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the earth.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond. It is engraved upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars,
Exodus 28:11-12
With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, thou shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the sons of Israel. Thou shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
Exodus 28:21
And the stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name; they shall be for the twelve tribes.
Exodus 32:16
And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved upon the tablets.
Deuteronomy 27:2-3
And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over the Jordan to the land which LORD thy God gives thee, that thou shall set up for thee great stones, and plaster them with plaster.
Deuteronomy 27:8
And thou shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.