INTRODUCTION:  Most of this chapter gives a list of the ills experienced by Job. After considering the afflictions laid on him in the first two chapters of the book, this does not seem to be any exaggeration. The amazing part of this chapter is found in Job 19:25-27 where Job bursts out in an outstanding proclamation of faith in the middle of his list of trials and afflictions. He suffered. But he never lost faith. What an example to us!

1. JOB’S COMPLAINT OF MISTREATMENT (Job 19:1-7)
1. The Attack of his Friends (Job 19:1-3)
1. They vex (trouble) his soul (Job 19:1)
2. They break him in pieces with words (Job 19:1; Psalm 64:3; James 3:6)
3. They have reproached him ten times (Job 19:2)
1. The number ten denotes completeness; not in the sense of perfection so much as in the sense of a full cup or a use of all one’s chances.
2. We find the phrase, “God said”, ten times in the creation story of Genesis One (Genesis 1:3,6,9,11,14,20,24,26, 28,29)
3. God gave to Israel ten commandments (Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 10:4)
4. Jacob complained that Laban had changed his wages ten times (Genesis 31:7,41); now it is time to leave
5. God accused Israel of tempting Him ten times in the wilderness (Numbers 14:22)
6. Among the Jews, it takes ten men to have a quorum for law or for full religious service (Ruth 4:2)
7. Nehemiah, when rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem was threatened ten times (Nehemiah 4:12)
8. Job accused his friends of reproaching him ten times (Job 19:3)
9. Daniel and his friends were proven with pulse for ten days (Daniel 1:12-15) and they were found to be ten times better than the magicians of the realm (Daniel 1:20)
4. They openly made themselves strange to him (Job 19:3)
2. The Placement of Guilt (Job 19:4)
1. The possibility of error
2. The responsibility for error (Galatians 6:5); that is, if all these afflictions are because of sin in his life, then he is already paying for the sin and does not need his friends to heap on more afflictions.
3. The Attack of God (Job 19:5-7)
1. The attack of friends is comparatively small (Job 19:5)
1. Though they magnify themselves against Job
2. Though they plead his reproach against him
2. The attack of God is much greater (Job 19:6)
1. He has overthrown Job
2. He has taken Job with His net
3. The cry of Job (Job 19:7)
1. A cry of wrong
2. A loud cry
3. An unheard cry
2. JOB’S DESTRUCTION BY GOD (Job 19:8-13)
1. His Removal of All Blessings (Job 19:8-10)
1. He fenced up Job’s way (Job 19:8)
2. He made his paths dark (Job 19:8)
3. He stripped him of glory (Job 19:9)
4. He took the crown from his head (Job 19:9)
5. He destroyed him on every side (Job 19:10)
6. He removed his hope like a tree (Job 19:10)
2. His Treatment of Job as an Enemy (Job 19:11-12)
1. He kindles His wrath against Job (Job 19:11)
2. He counted him as an enemy (Job 19:11)
3. He brought His troops against him (Job 19:12)
3. His Turning of Others Against Job (Job 19:13)
1. He put his brethren far from him
2. He estranged his acquaintance from him
3. JOB’S REJECTION BY OTHERS (Job 19:14-19)
1. By his Kinfolk (Job 19:14)
1. His kinsfolk failed him
2. His familiar friends forgot him
2. By his Servants (Job 19:15-16)
1. They count him as a stranger (Job 19:15)
2. They refuse to answer him (Job 19:16)
3. By his Wife (Job 19:17)
1. His breath is strange to his wife
2. She will not respond for their children’s sake
4. By Young Children (Job 19:18)
1. They despise him
2. They speak against him
5. By his Inward Friends (Job 19:19)
1. They abhorred him
2. They turned against him
4. JOB’S CRY FOR PITY (Job 19:20-22)
1. His Physical Suffering (Job 19:20)
1. His bone cleaves to his skin and flesh (Job 30:30; Lamentations 4:8)
2. He is escaped with the skin of his teeth
2. His Touch by the Hand of God (Job 19:21)
1. He should be an object of pity
2. He has been touched by the hand of God (Job 2:5)
3. His Continued Persecution (Job 19:22)
1. His friends join with God in persecuting Job
2. They are not satisfied with the sufferings he has already experienced
5. JOB’S DECLARATION OF FAITH (Job 19:23-29)
1. His Statement of Faith (Job 19:23-24)
1. That they might be written in a book (Job 19:23)
2. That they might be engraved with a pen (Job 19:24; Jeremiah 17:1)
2. His Confidence in God (Job 19:25-27; Job 13:15)
1. Concerning his Redeemer (Job 19:25); to redeem is to buy back
1. That He now lives (John 14:19; 1 Corinthians 15:12-20)
2. That He shall stand (Acts 1:9-11; Zechariah 14:3-4)
2. Concerning his resurrection (Job 19:26)
1. To come after death (John 12:24; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
2. To come in person (Philippians 3:20; Titus 2:13)
3. Concerning his remains (Job 19:27)
1. To be corrupted (1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-45)
2. To be changed (1 Corinthians 15:49-57)
3. His Testimony to Others (Job 19:28-29)
1. They should be looking to themselves (Job 19:28)
1. No cause to persecute Job
2. The root of the matter is in them
2. They should be afraid of the sword (Job 19:29)
1. Wrath beings judgment
2. There is a judgment

CONCLUSION: No matter what trials we face, we can still look to the Lord and trust in the resurrection to come. Are you looking to the Lord today?