EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 19:24
24If someone uses an iron tool to write them on a rock, that would be good. Then they would never disappear.
Job 19:24 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
- New International Version (NIV)that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!
- English Standard Version (ESV)Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
- New King James Version (NKJV)That they were engraved on a rock With an iron pen and lead, forever!
Context of Job 19:24
22Do not punish me as God is punishing me. You have already caused me to suffer enough. 23Someone should write down the words that I speak. My words should be written on a scroll. If someone uses an iron tool to write them on a rock, that would be good. Then they would never disappear. 25As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives. I know that, in the end, he will stand on the earth. 26Illness may completely destroy my skin. But after that happens, I know that in this body I will see God.
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בְּעֵט־בַּרְזֶ֥ל וְעֹפָ֑רֶת לָ֝עַ֗ד בַּצּ֥וּר יֵחָצְבֽוּן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 19:24
- Exodus 28:11A worker who has skill to cut letters into metal must do this work. Then fix the stones into beautiful gold around their edges.
- Exodus 32:16This was God's own work. He himself had written the words on the stones.
- Deuteronomy 27:2You will soon go across the Jordan River and go into the land that the Lord your God is giving to you. When you are there, you must put up some large stones on Mount Ebal. Cover them with thick white paint.
- Jeremiah 17:1‘The people of Judah love to do bad things. Their sins are deep inside them. It is like they are written on their hearts and on the horns of their altars. They are written with an iron pen. Nobody can remove the list of their sins.
Commentaries on Job 19:24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 24Iron pen and lead - Some suppose that the meaning of this place is this: the iron pen is the chisel by which the letters were to be deeply cut in the stone or rock; and the lead was melted into those cavities in order to preserve the engraving distinct. But this is not so natural a supposition as what is stated above; that Job refers to the different kinds of writing or perpetuating public events, used in his time: and the quotations from Pliny and…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 24That they were graven - Cut in, or sculptured - as is done on stones. That they might become thus a permanent record. With an iron pen - A stylus, or an engraving tool - for so the word (עט ‛êṭ ) means. The instrument formerly used for writing or engraying was a small, sharp-pointed piece of iron or steel, that was employed to mark on lead or stone - somewhat in the form of small graying tools now. When the writing was on wax, the instrument was made…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-29Verses 23-29 The Spirit of God, at this time, seems to have powerfully wrought on the mind of Job. Here he witnessed a good confession; declared the soundness of his faith, and the assurance of his hope. Here is much of Christ and heaven; and he that said such things are these, declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly. Job was taught of God to believe in a living Redeemer; to look for the resurrection of the dead, and the…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2424. pen--graver. lead--poured into the engraven characters, to make them better seen [Umbreit]. Not on leaden plates; for it was "in the rock" that they were engraved. Perhaps it was the hammer that was of "lead," as sculptors find more delicate incisions are made by it, than by a harder hammer. FOSTER (One Primeval Language) has shown that the inscriptions on the rocks in Wady-Mokatta, along Israel's route through the desert, record the journeys of that…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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