...ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! (Job 19:21-24) Job's request that his words be printed in a book is of course answered sel f- reflex...

...which should be made afterwards. Yet even Job could say : " Oh that my words were now written ! oh that they were printed in a book ! That they were...graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever ! For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter dny upon the earth ; And...

...256.12 tablets of brass with apen of steel compare Job 19.23-24:'Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever'. In the Bible it is usually 'tables of stone', not of brass, in which words are set for ever, but in...

...with interest the subsequent uncited section of this passage: "Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! that they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! (Job 19:23-25)." The desire, recorded in this part of the passage, that the autobiographical...

...final line was probably drawn from Job 19:24, a passage concerning Job's wish regarding his words — "That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!" It is altogether likely that Poe, who had endured so many troubles, identified with Job and felt that...

...were now written, Oh! that they were printed in a book! (stamped, as 011 the Babylonian bricks?) — that they were graven with an iron, pen and lead in the rock for ever!" Here writing is not spoken of as a new invention. It must have been an art long established, before...

...the hand of God hath touched me. Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? O that my words were now written! O that they were...graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever! For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though...

...they have had to reaffirm some of the folk mores of the past. Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth....

...believer was voiced by Job in the midst of his sufferings. He said, "Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:...

...perhaps felt the same as Job, when he wrote in Job 19:23-25: "Oh, that my words were now written! Oh, that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever! For I know that redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth,"...