Week 487 · about 45 minutes
Job 15
Job 15 · Memory verse Job 15:8
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Job 15), the matching word search and answer key (Job 15 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a folded cloth
Hold a folded cloth. Read Job 15 in about four minutes, stopping at Job 15:8: “Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Job 15?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Job 15 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Then Eliphaz the Temanite 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, “(which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;” Job 15 opens with these words: “Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,” The line to keep is Job 15:8: “Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?” Carry the word “heard” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Job 15:8: “Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Job 15? Then try this: Read “Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?” 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 15. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Job 15:8. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Job 15 and write Job 15:8 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Job 15:8
“Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Job 15. Help us remember Job 15:8 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.