KJV King James Version
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
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Job 19:24
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
WEB World English Bible
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
ASV American Standard Version
That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
With a pen of iron and lead—For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
Surrounding context — Job 19
21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
25 For I know [that] my redeemer liveth, and [that] he shall stand at the latter [day] upon the earth:
26 And [though] after my skin [worms] destroy this [body], yet in my flesh shall I see God:
27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; [though] my reins be consumed within me.
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Jeremiah 17:1The 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;Exodus 28:11-12With 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.Exodus 28:21And 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.Deuteronomy 27:2-3And 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 27:8And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.Exodus 32:16And the tables [were] the work of God, and the writing [was] the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
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