Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!
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!
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 If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book! 24 And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever! 25 But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust;
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is recorded with a pen of iron, and with the sharp point of a jewel it is cut on their hearts of stone, and on the horns of their altars for a sign to them:
Exodus 28:11-12
With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.
Exodus 28:21
The jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names of the children of Israel; every jewel having the name of one of the twelve tribes cut on it as on a stamp.
Exodus 32:16
The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on the stones.
Deuteronomy 27:2-3
And on the day when you go over Jordan into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, put up great stones, coating them with building-paste,
Deuteronomy 27:8
And put on the stones all the words of this law, writing them very clearly.