Job 19:24 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
English ASV
That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!
English Amplified
That with an iron pen and [molten] lead they were graven in the rock forever!
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
That with an iron pen and [molten] lead they were graven in the rock forever!
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
by an iron stylus on lead, or chiseled in stone forever.
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead!
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
English EASY 2024
If someone uses an iron tool to write them on a rock, that would be good. Then they would never disappear.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
I wish they were carved with an iron tool into lead or scratched on a rock so that they would last forever.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
English GNT (Good News Translation)
Or with a chisel carve my words in stone and write them so that they would last forever.
English God's Word - GW 1995
I wish they were forever engraved on a rock with an iron stylus and lead.
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead!
English KJV 1611
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
English LSB
That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
"That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
That with an iron chisel and with lead they were cut in the rock forever!
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
I wish they were cut into lead with an iron tool! I wish they were carved in rock forever!
English NIV
that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!
English NKJ 1982
That they were engraved on a rock With an iron pen and lead, forever!
English NLT
carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock.
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever!
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
with an iron pen in the rock forever.
English Tyndale 1537
would God they were graven with an iron pen in lead or in stone.