Job 19:24
Modern Translations
New International Version
that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!

New Living Translation
carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock.

English Standard Version
Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!

Berean Study Bible
by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.

New American Standard Bible
“That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

NASB 1995
"That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

NASB 1977
“That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

Amplified Bible
“That with an iron stylus and [molten] lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

Christian Standard Bible
or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead!

Contemporary English Version
or chiseled into rock.

Good News Translation
Or with a chisel carve my words in stone and write them so that they would last forever.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I wish they were forever engraved on a rock with an iron stylus and lead.

International Standard Version
using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever.

NET Bible
that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

New King James Version
That they were engraved on a rock With an iron pen and lead, forever!

King James 2000 Bible
That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!

New Heart English Bible
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever.

World English Bible
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!

American King James Version
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

American Standard Version
That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!

A Faithful Version
Oh, that they were cut with an iron pen and lead and engraved in the rock forever!

Darby Bible Translation
That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!

English Revised Version
That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!

Webster's Bible Translation
That they were graven with an iron pen in lead, in the rock for ever!

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And grauen with an yron pen in lead, or in stone for euer!

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And grauen with an iron penne in leade, or in stone, to continue.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
wolde God they were graue wt an yron pene in leade or in stone.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
With a pen of iron and lead—They may be hewn in a rock forever.

Young's Literal Translation
With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn.

Smith's Literal Translation
They shall be cut in the rock with a style of iron and lead, forever.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.

Catholic Public Domain Version
with an iron pen and a plate of lead, or else be carved in stone?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And with a pen of iron and with a pen of lead for eternity, and upon stone they would be inscribed!

Lamsa Bible
That they were engraved with an iron pen on lead or in the rock for ever!

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
with an iron pen and lead, or graven in the rocks!
















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