Other translations
American Standard Version
That with an iron pen and lead They were graven in the rock for ever!
Darby Bible Translation
That with an iron style and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
With an iron pen and in a plate of lead, or else be graven with an instrument in flint stone.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
God's Word
I wish they were forever engraved on a rock with an iron stylus and lead.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead!
International Standard Version
using an iron stylus with lead for ink! Then they'd be engraved in rock forever.
NET Bible
that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in a rock forever!
New American Standard Bible
"That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
New International Version
that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!
New Living Translation
carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock.
Webster's Bible Translation
That they were graven with an iron pen in lead, in the rock for ever!
The World English Bible
That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
EasyEnglish Bible
If someone uses an iron tool to write them on a rock, that would be good. Then they would never disappear.
Young‘s Literal Translation
With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn.
New Life Version
If only they were cut forever into the rock with an iron cutter and lead!
The Voice Bible
No! More than that! To have them chiseled with iron filled with lead— carved in stone for all eternity.
Living Bible
Oh, that I could write my plea with an iron pen in the rock forever.
New Catholic Bible
How I wish that with an iron chisel and with lead they were engraved in stone forever!
Legacy Standard Bible
That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
Jubilee Bible 2000
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Christian Standard Bible
or were inscribed in stone forever by an iron stylus and lead!
Amplified Bible © 1954
That with an iron pen and [molten] lead they were graven in the rock forever!
New Century Version
I wish they were carved with an iron pen into lead, or carved into stone forever.
The Message
“If only my words were written in a book— better yet, chiseled in stone! Still, I know that God lives—the One who gives me back my life— and eventually he’ll take his stand on earth. And I’ll see him—even though I get skinned alive!— see God myself, with my very own eyes. Oh, how I long for that day!
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
that they would be engraved in rock forever with an iron tool and letters filled with lead.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever!
Good News Translation®
Or with a chisel carve my words in stone and write them so that they would last forever.
Wycliffe Bible
with an iron pointel, either with a piece of lead; either with a chisel those be graven in a flint? (or on a piece of lead, with an iron stylus? or be engraved on a stone, with a chisel?)
Contemporary English Version
or chiseled into rock.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock forever!
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock for ever!
Common English Bible © 2011
with an iron instrument and lead, forever engraved on stone.
Amplified Bible © 2015
“That with an iron stylus and [molten] lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
English Standard Version Anglicised
Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock for ever!
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
That with an iron chisel and with lead they were cut in the rock forever!
New American Standard Bible
That with an iron stylus and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!
The Expanded Bible
I wish they were carved with an iron pen ·into [L and] lead, or carved into stone ·forever [or as a witness; C Job wants the following statement to last].
Tree of Life Version
that with an iron pen and lead, they were engraved in stone forever!
Revised Standard Version
Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
New International Reader's Version
I wish they were cut into lead with an iron tool! I wish they were carved in rock forever!
BRG Bible
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Complete Jewish Bible
that, engraved with iron and filled with lead, they were cut into rock forever!
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
O that with an iron pen and with lead they were engraved on a rock for ever!
Orthodox Jewish Bible
That they were engraved with a pen of barzel and with oferet (lead) in the tzur forever!
Names of God Bible
I wish they were forever engraved on a rock with an iron stylus and lead.
Modern English Version
That they were engraved with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!
Easy-to-Read Version
I wish they were carved with an iron tool into lead or scratched on a rock so that they would last forever.
International Children’s Bible
I wish they were carved with an iron pen into lead, or carved into stone forever!
Lexham English Bible
That with a pen of iron and with lead they might be engraved on a rock forever!
New International Version - UK
that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock for ever!