Week 495 · about 45 minutes
Job 23
Job 23 · Memory verse Job 23:16
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Job 23), the matching word search and answer key (Job 23 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a piece of bread
Hold a piece of bread. Read Job 23 in about four minutes, stopping at Job 23:16: “For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Job 23?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Job 23 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, “He works to the north, but I can’t see him. He turns south, but I can’t catch a glimpse of him.” Job 23 opens with these words: “Then Job answered,” The line to keep is Job 23:16: “For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.” Carry the word “heart” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Job 23:16: “For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Job 23? Then try this: Read “For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.” 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 23. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Job 23:16. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Job 23 and write Job 23:16 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Job 23:16
“For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Job 23. Help us remember Job 23:16 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.