Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
would God they were graven with an iron pen in lead or in stone.
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!
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 written, O that they were put in a book: 24 would God they were graven with an iron pen in lead or in stone. 25 "For I am sure that my redeemer liveth, and that I shall rise out of the earth in the latter day:
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 17:1
your sin, O ye of the tribe of Judah, is written in the table of your hearts, and graven so upon the edges of your altars with a pen of iron and with an adamant claw:
Exodus 28:11-12
After the work of a stone graver, even as signets are graven, shalt thou grave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel, and shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
Exodus 28:21
And the stones shall be graven as signets be graven: with the names of the children of Israel, even with twelve names every one with his name according to the twelve tribes.
Exodus 32:16
and were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God graven upon the tables.
Deuteronomy 27:2-3
And when ye be come over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, set up great stones and plaster them with plaster,
Deuteronomy 27:8
And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law, manifestly and well."