Week 493 · about 45 minutes
Job 21
Job 21 · Memory verse Job 21:9
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Job 21), the matching word search and answer key (Job 21 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a small lamp
Hold a small lamp. Read Job 21 in about four minutes, stopping at Job 21:9: “Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Job 21?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Job 21 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, “How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?” Job 21 opens with these words: “Then Job answered,” The line to keep is Job 21:9: “Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.” Carry the word “houses” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Job 21:9: “Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Job 21? Then try this: Read “Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.” 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 21. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Job 21:9. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Job 21 and write Job 21:9 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Job 21:9
“Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Job 21. Help us remember Job 21:9 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.