And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever!
MESSAGE
better yet, chiseled in stone!
NKJV
That they were engraved on a rock With an iron pen and lead, forever!
PHILIPS
RWEBSTR
That they were engraved with an iron pen in lead in the rock for ever!
GWV
I wish they were forever engraved on a rock with an iron stylus and lead.
NET
that with an iron chisel and with lead* they were engraved in a rock forever!
NET
19:24 that with an iron chisel and with lead1343
sn There is some question concerning the use of the lead. It surely cannot be a second description of the tool, for a lead tool would be of no use in chiseling words into a rock. It was Rashi’s idea, followed by Dillmann and Duhm, that lead was run into the cut-out letters. The suggestion that they wrote on lead tablets does not seem to fit the verse (cf. NIV). See further A. Baker, “The Strange Case of Job’s Chisel,” CBQ 31 (1969): 370-79.