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Job 19:24

Job 19:24
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For I know,.... The particle which is sometimes rendered by the copulative "and", by an adversative "but", and sometimes as a causal particle "for", should not be rendered here by either; but as an…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

That 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)…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 19:23-29

In all the conferences between Job and his friends we do not find any more weighty and considerable lines than these; would one have expected it? Here is much both of Christ and heaven in these…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

In Job 19:19 Job longed that his words were written. But ordinary writing is perishable. And now he desires that his words were hewn in indelible characters upon the rock. The "lead" was probably run…