King James Version
Job 19:24 in the King James Version says “That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!” — study this verse from Job chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!”
Job 19:24 · KJV
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! Oh: Heb. Who will give, etc
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:
And 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
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“for ever”
H5703properly, a (peremptory) terminus, i.e., (by implication) duration, in the sense of advance or perpetuity (substantially as a noun, either with or wit
“in the rock”
H6697properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
“That they were graven”
H2672to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
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