What does Job Chapter 19 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

As indicated in the chapter summary, Job laments the harsh cruelty of his companions, recounts the depth of his personal afflictions, and proclaims his firm faith in a future resurrection. He asks his friends how long they will continue to afflict his soul and crush him with harsh speeches, noting that they have confounded him ten times without shame. If he has erred in ignorance, that ignorance remains his own burden; yet his accusers exalt themselves over him and turn his misfortunes into reproaches. Job urges them to realize that God has encompassed him with scourges without an equal judgment. As the Challoner annotation explains citing Saint Gregory, Job recognized that his suffering was greater than his personal sins deserved, meaning the punishment was not proportional to his guilt, yet remained just because God tests righteous souls with tribulations as gold is purified in fire to bestow a crown of justice.

Job describes himself as crying out under violence without anyone hearing, and shouting aloud with no judge to grant redress. God has blocked his path with hedges so he cannot pass, cast darkness across his way, stripped him of his former glory, and removed the crown from his head. Broken on every side, he feels his hope uprooted like a tree plucked up, while God kindles wrath against him, treats him as an enemy, and marshals attacking troops to besiege his tent.

In Job’s speech, this divine visitation is accompanied by the estrangement Job describes. God has driven Job's brethren far away, and former acquaintances shun him like strangers. His kinsmen have forsaken him, those who knew him have forgotten him, and those dwelling in his house and maidservants treat him as an alien. When he calls his servant, the servant gives no answer, and Job says he entreated with his own mouth. His wife abhors his very breath, and he must plead with the children of his own body. Even fools despise him and mock him as he walks away; his former counsellors abhor him, and the one he loved most has turned against him. Physically wasted, his flesh is consumed until his bones cleave to his skin, leaving only the lips around his teeth.

In his desolation, Job cries out twice for pity, begging his companions to show mercy because the hand of the Lord has touched him, rather than joining God in persecuting him and consuming his flesh. He yearns for his testimony to endure, wishing his words could be inscribed in a book, engraved with an iron stylus upon a plate of lead, or graven into solid flint stone. In a climactic profession of faith, Job proclaims that he knows his Redeemer lives, and that on the last day he will rise out of the earth. The separate edition note describes explicit belief in the Redeemer and resurrection of the selfsame flesh by God’s power, changed in quality but not substance, with everyone receiving sentence according to works in this life. Job declares that he will be clothed again in his skin, and in his own flesh will see God with his own eyes rather than through another. Anchored in this hope laid up in his bosom, Job warns his accusers to cease their persecutions and flee the avenging sword of divine judgment.