Week 491 · about 45 minutes
Job 19
Job 19 · Memory verse Job 19:6
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Job 19), the matching word search and answer key (Job 19 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a wooden spoon
Hold a wooden spoon. Read Job 19 in about four minutes, stopping at Job 19:6: “know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Job 19?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Job 19 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, “Those who dwell in my house and my maids consider me a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.” Job 19 opens with these words: “Then Job answered,” The line to keep is Job 19:6: “know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.” Carry the word “know” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Job 19:6: “know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Job 19? Then try this: Read “know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.” 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 19. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Job 19:6. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Job 19 and write Job 19:6 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Job 19:6
“know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Job 19. Help us remember Job 19:6 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.