Verse 24
Job 19:24
World Messianic Bible
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That with an iron pen and lead
they were engraved in the rock forever!
Original Language Text
hebrew
בְּ/עֵט בַּרְזֶ֥ל וְ/עֹפָ֑רֶת לָ֝/עַ֗ד בַּ/צּ֥וּר יֵחָצְבֽוּ/ן
English Translation
With an iron pen and lead, they will be engraved on the rock forever.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 19 Context
1
Then Job answered,
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“How long will you torment me,
and crush me with words?
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You have reproached me ten times.
You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.
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If it is true that I have erred,
my error remains with myself.
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If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me,
and plead against me my reproach;
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know now that God (Elohim) has subverted me,
and has surrounded me with his net.
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“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard.
I cry for help, but there is no justice.
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He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass,
and has set darkness in my paths.
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He has stripped me of my glory,
and taken the crown from my head.
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10
He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone.
My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
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He has also kindled his wrath against me.
He counts me among his adversaries.
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His troops come on together,
build a siege ramp against me,
and encamp around my tent.
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“He has put my brothers far from me.
My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
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My relatives have gone away.
My familiar friends have forgotten me.
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Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am an alien in their sight.
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I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer.
I beg him with my mouth.
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My breath is offensive to my wife.
I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
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Even young children despise me.
If I arise, they speak against me.
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All my familiar friends abhor me.
They whom I loved have turned against me.
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My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh.
I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
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“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends;
for the hand of God (Elohim) has touched me.
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Why do you persecute me as God (Elohim),
and are not satisfied with my flesh?
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“Oh that my words were now written!
Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
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That with an iron pen and lead
they were engraved in the rock forever!
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But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.
In the end, he will stand upon the earth.
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After my skin is destroyed,
then in my flesh shall I see God (Elohim),
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Whom I, even I, shall see on my side.
My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger.
“My heart is consume...
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If you say, ‘How we will persecute him!’
because the root of the matter is found in me,
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be afraid of the sword,
for wrath brings the punishments of the sword,
that you may know there is a...
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