Week 511 · about 45 minutes
Job 39
Job 39 · Memory verse Job 39:11
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Job 39), the matching word search and answer key (Job 39 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a wooden spoon
Hold a wooden spoon. Read Job 39 in about four minutes, stopping at Job 39:11: “Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Job 39?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Job 39 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, ““Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?” 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, “She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,” Job 39 opens with these words: ““Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch when the doe bears fawns?” The line to keep is Job 39:11: “Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?” Carry the word “trust” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Job 39:11: “Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Job 39? Then try this: Read “Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?” 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 39. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Job 39:11. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Job 39 and write Job 39:11 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Job 39:11
“Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your labor?”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Job 39. Help us remember Job 39:11 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.