Week 492 · about 45 minutes
Job 20
Job 20 · Memory verse Job 20:5
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Job 20), the matching word search and answer key (Job 20 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a paper crown
Hold a paper crown. Read Job 20 in about four minutes, stopping at Job 20:5: “that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Job 20?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Job 20 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Then Zophar the Naamathite 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, “He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.” Job 20 opens with these words: “Then Zophar the Naamathite answered,” The line to keep is Job 20:5: “that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?” Carry the word “triumphing” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Job 20:5: “that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Job 20? Then try this: Read “that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?” 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 20. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Job 20:5. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Job 20 and write Job 20:5 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Job 20:5
“that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Job 20. Help us remember Job 20:5 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.