Week 513 · about 45 minutes
Job 41
Job 41 · Memory verse Job 41:9
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Job 41), the matching word search and answer key (Job 41 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a small lamp
Hold a small lamp. Read Job 41 in about four minutes, stopping at Job 41:9: “Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Job 41?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Job 41 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, ““Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?” 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, “His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.” Job 41 opens with these words: ““Can you draw out Leviathan with a fish hook, or press down his tongue with a cord?” The line to keep is Job 41:9: “Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?” Carry the word “behold” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Job 41:9: “Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Job 41? Then try this: Read “Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?” 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 41. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Job 41:9. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Job 41 and write Job 41:9 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Job 41:9
“Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won’t one be cast down even at the sight of him?”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Job 41. Help us remember Job 41:9 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.