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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 the...
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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_...
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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 19:25)...
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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,...
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GRAVEN. engraven. See translation below....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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 i...
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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...
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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...
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בְּ עֵט ־בַּרְזֶ֥ל וְ עֹפָ֑רֶת לָ֝
עַ֗ד בַּ † צּ֥וּר יֵחָצְבֽוּן׃...
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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...
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“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; hi...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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,...
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JOB STATES HIS BELIEF IN FINAL VINDICATION...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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. For this lead may b...
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Job 19:24 engraved H2672 (H8735) rock H6697 iron H1270 pen H5842 lead
H5777 forever H5703
graven - Exodus 28:11-12, Exodus 28:21, Exodus 32:16; Deuteronomy
27:2-3, Deuteronomy 27:8;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 27:2; Deuteronomy 27:3; Deuteronomy 27:8; Exodus 28:11;
Exodus 28:12; Exodus 28:21; Exodus 32:16; Jeremiah 17:1...
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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...
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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....