Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 19:24
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.
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.
Verse Job 19:24. _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 be _deeply cut_ in the _stone_ or _rock_; and th...
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 _‛__êṭ_)...
CHAPTER 19 JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD _ 1. How long will ye vex my soul? (Job 19:1)_ 2. And I am not heard! (Job 19:7) 3. Forsaken of men he pleads to be pitied (Job 19:13) 4. Faith supreme ...
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 side,...
GRAVEN. engraven. See translation below....
Job turns to the future. He desires that his protestation of innocence could find indelible record in the rock, that it might stand a perpetual witness to all generations. But he shall have something...
In Job 19:23 Job longed that his words were written. But ordinary writing is perishable. And now he desires that his words were hewn in indelible characters upon the rock. The "lead" was probably run...
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 engraven o...
5. And asserts his hope of a vindicator (_go-'el)_ (Job 19:23-27) TEXT 19:23-27 23 OH THAT MY WORDS WERE NOW WRITTEN! Oh that they were Inscribed in a book! 24 That with an iron pen and lead They...
_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; because it...
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 his...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 19 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...
Bildad said that everyone would forget the wicked man (Job 18:17-19). But Job did not want anyone to forget that he was innocent (Job 16:18). So Job wanted someone to write his words in a book. Then p...
בְּ עֵט ־בַּרְזֶ֥ל וְ עֹפָ֑רֶת לָ֝ עַ֗ד
XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectancy with te...
“I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH” Job 19:1 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 disdain; his...
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, le...
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....
In a. Hebrew, "lead, in the rock for ever." (Protestants) Septuagint have, "for ever," after book, (ver. 23) and subjoins, "with a writing instrument of iron and (or) lead, or be engraven on the rocks...
(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 to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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 iron a...
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 graven in...
_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 STATES HIS BELIEF IN FINAL VINDICATION...
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! chiseled in the rock and the letters then filled with lead, as a witness to future generations. This hope, as Job knew, would not b...
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 long w...
"THAT WITH AN IRON STYLUS AND LEAD THEY WERE ENGRAVED IN THE ROCK FOREVER!" He wanted his story carved into solid rock and then the letters carved filled with lead. "This memorial would allow future g...
23-29 The Spirit of God, at this time, seems to have powerfully wrought on the mind of Job. Here he witnessed a good confession; declared the soundness of his faith, and the assurance of his hope. He...
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...
Job 19:24 engraved H2672 (H8735) rock H6697 iron H1270 pen H5842 lead H5777 forever H5703 graven -...
Job 19:1. _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 roadside. We...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His sublime faith. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: We may easily bear the unjust reproaches of men if we live in expectation of the glorious appearance o...
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. Job 1...
_Oh that my words were now written! _ JOB LONGING FOR A PERMANENT MEMORIAL Job’s wish has been gratified; his memorial has found inscription on a tablet compared with which the granite rock is rubbi...
_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 exasperated him...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:1 Job responds, asking his friends how long they will persist in accusing him and why they feel no shame for doing so. Even if he has done wrong, it is God who has brought about his...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:23 Job wishes his WORDS could be recorded as a witness that would remain when he is dead. He refers to two methods of recording: INSCRIBED IN A BOOK could refer to a scroll, a book,...
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 his faith...
EXPOSITION JOB 19:1 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 reproaches (verses...
Then Job answered and said, How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with your words? These ten times you have reproached me: and you're not ashamed that you made yourself like a stranger...
Deuteronomy 27:2; Deuteronomy 27:3; Deuteronomy 27:8; Exodus 28:11;...
JOB'S VICTORIOUS FAITH Job 19:23 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 waning. E...