“ That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! ”
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...
That they were graven with (p) an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! (p) He protests that despite his sore passions his religion is perfect and that he in not a blasphemer as they judged him.
Job 19. Job's Answer. Here the gradual progress of Job's soul towards faith reaches its climax ( Job 19:25 f.). It is to be remembered that Job's problem is in reality twofold: it has a personal s...
graven . engraven. See translation below.
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! Iron pen and lead - Some suppose that the meaning of this place is this: the iron pen is the chisel by which the letters were to...
Oh that they were printed in a book!— The sense of these words, according to the translation of Schultens, is this: "Who now will write my words? Who will record them in a book? Let them be engrave...
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! Pen - graver. Lead - poured into the engraven characters, to make them better seen (Umbreit). Not on leaden plates; be...
Job's Fifth Speech In this speech Job repeats his bitter complaints of God's injustice, and man's contemptuous abandonment of one formerly so loved and honoured. He appeals in broken utterances to...
XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1-29 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectanc...
“I Know That My Redeemer Liveth” Job 19:1-29 In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who sojourned in his household looked on him with dis...
To this terrible accusation Job replied first with a rebuke and a complaint. He demanded how long they would vex him, and declared that if he had erred, his sin was his own. If they would continue, l...
(23) В¶ 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 forever! I consider these words merely as a preface t...
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever !] Or "that they were written with an iron pen and lead, that they were cut or hewn out in a rock for ever"; not with both an iro...
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! Ver. 24. That they were graven with an iron pen, &c. ] That my words were not only scripta sed sculpta, written, but gra...
O that my words were now written! Either, 1st, All his foregoing discourses with his friends, which he was so far from disowning or being ashamed of, that he was desirous all ages should know them,...
JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD (vv.1-6). Though Job did not lose his temper at the unjust accusations of Bildad, he shows here that the reproaches of his friends have struck deeply into his soul. "How lo...
Job's Confession of Faith; Happiness of the Redeemed. B. C. 1520. 23 Oh that my words...
An iron pen; of which also there is mention Jeremiah 17:1 . And lead; or, or lead ; or, with lead ; the particle and being oft so used, as Genesis 4:20 Exodus 1:6 Jeremiah 22:7 . Fo...
Notes Job 19:23 . “ O that my words were now written! ” The “words” understood as either— (1) Those now to be uttered . So JEROME, PISCATOR, CARYL, HENRY, &c. As an everlasting monument of...
Job 19:1-2 . Then, Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? They struck at him with their hard words, as if they were breaking stones on the roadsid...
Job 19:3 . These ten times have ye reproached me. A form of speech which puts a certain number for one less certain. Job had no doubt noticed about ten principal arguments levelled against him....
Then Job answered and said. Complaints and confidences I. Job bitterly complaining. 1. He complains of the conduct of his friends, and especially their want of sympathy. (1) They exaspera...
EXPOSITION Job 19:1-18 Job begins his answer to Bildad's second speech by an expostulation against the unkindness of his friends, who break him in pieces, and torture him, with their reproa...
Job States his Belief in Final Vindication
Deuteronomy 27:2 ; Deuteronomy 27:3 ; Deuteronomy 27:8 ; Exodus 28:11 ; Exodus 28:12 ; Exodus 28:21 ; Exodus 32:16 ; Jeremiah 17:1
Job's Victorious Faith Job 19:23-29 INTRODUCTORY WORDS All of the heroes of the faith have not lived in our day. To tell the truth, we fear that the heroic faith which marked the ancients is w...
Lead — Anciently they used to grave the letters in a stone with an iron tool, and then to fill up the cuts with lead, that the words might be more plainly seen.