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Chapter 19 records Job's answer to Bildad. He accused his friends of not being friends, not offering any comfort or showing any compassion. He finds comfort in the hope of a better life here after, a doctrine that was strange in those days. He concludes with a warning to his friends to "lighten" up.
"How long are you going to trouble me and try to break my spirit with words?" "Ten times now you have called me a sinner and yet you have yet to prove your accusations." "Don't you realize that from the beginning the life of the wicked has been short lived?" "Though the godless be proud they will fade like a dream." "Neither his friends nor his family will ever see him again." "His children will beg and work at hard labor to pay his debts." "He enjoyed the taste for a while be suddenly the food that he has eaten turns sour within him." "God won't let him keep it down, it is like poison to him." "Because he stole at every opportunity, his prosperity will not continue." "He shall run into trouble at the peak of his life and his treasurers will be lost in the fire." "The heavens will reveal his sins and the earth will give testimony against him."
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