Job 19:24 Douay-Rheims

With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.

Rashi

1040–1105 Jewish

With an iron pen they should be inscribed in the rock, and afterwards they run lead over them to give the letters a black appearance, to make them recognizable. This is the practice of those who inscribe on stone. It cannot be explained to mean a lead pen because lead is soft in comparison with stone.

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

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1105 · Job 19:24

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