Job 19:24 · KJV
“That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!”
— Job 19:24
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! {Oh...: Heb. Who will give, etc}
For I know {that} my redeemer liveth, and {that} he shall stand at the latter {day} upon the earth:
Job 19 — Context
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! {Oh...: Heb. Who will give, etc}
24That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25For I know {that} my redeemer liveth, and {that} he shall stand at the latter {day} upon the earth:
26And {though} after my skin {worms} destroy this {body}, yet in my flesh shall I see God: {And...: or, After I shall awake, though this body be destroyed, yet out of my flesh}
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} graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; {point: Heb. nail}
Deuteronomy 27:2-3
And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:
Deuteronomy 27:8
And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
Exodus 32:16
And the tables {were} the work of God, and the writing {was} the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Exodus 28:21
And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, {like} the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
Exodus 28:11-12
With the work of an engraver in stone, {like} the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.