To these fresh reproaches Job answered in chapter 19, pleading for pity, that his friends would cease from speaking against him. The loss of his "glory", and of his "crown" (verse 9) distressed him, and we are by this reminded of the word of a more enlightened saint in New Testament days.
What a contrast between Job as we see him in these chapters, and the apostle Paul! (Gal. 6:1414But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. (Galatians 6:14)). Yet, as we have noted before, all was not darkness with Job, for he knew that his Redeemer lives, who should stand where he would see Him, and he would see Him in his body, and with his own eyes. This is a remarkable utterance, going farther in the language of faith than anything we have heard from Job before.
In chapter 14 he was speaking of "man," not the resurrection of the righteous among men. He might die, and his body be consumed away, but in the resurrection, he would have a new body; he did not have a doubt about that, nor fear of meeting God, because, however feebly he understood it, his faith had laid hold of the Redeemer yet to come, to die,—the Just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
Compare these words of Job with the solemn utterance of the wicked Balaam.