Week 484 · about 45 minutes
Job 12
Job 12 · Memory verse Job 12:4
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Job 12), the matching word search and answer key (Job 12 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a smooth stone
Hold a smooth stone. Read Job 12 in about four minutes, stopping at Job 12:4: “I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Job 12?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Job 12 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Then Job answered,” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.
Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, ““With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.” Job 12 opens with these words: “Then Job answered,” The line to keep is Job 12:4: “I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.” Carry the word “joke” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Job 12:4: “I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Job 12? Then try this: Read “I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.
Group game
Walk the room as if you are moving through Job 12. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Job 12:4. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Job 12 and write Job 12:4 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Job 12:4
“I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Job 12. Help us remember Job 12:4 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.