19:23 printed in a book. Job’s strong desire to write of his experiences, as expressed here, as well as the fact that no one except he could actually know them, makes it almost certain that he was the original author of the book of Job.

19:24 in the rock. In accord with the common practices of that age, Job would write his record on stone tablets. These somehow must eventually have come into the possession of Moses who, according to uniform Jewish tradition, later published them.