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Job 19:24 KJV
Job · chapter 19 · verse 24
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!Job 19:24 · King James Version
Job 19:24 in context
22Why 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!
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:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- gravenchâtsabto cut or carveH2672 →
- ironbarzelironH1270 →
- leadʻôwpherethleadH5777 →
- rocktsûwrproperly, a cliffH6697 →
- penʻêṭa stylus or marking stickH5842 →
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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 verses: and he that said such things as these declared plainly that he sought the better country, that is, the heavenly;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 23-29