Poetry & Wisdom
What should a child notice in Job 1?
Job 1 opens with these words: “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from…” The line to keep is Job 1:1: “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.” Carry the word “land” from that verse into the rest of the day. A sentence to keep is Job 1:1: “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.” What happens first in Job 1?
Job 1:1
“There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.”
Job 1:3
“His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.”
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Practice Job 1:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
wasamaninthelandofUz,whosenamewasJob.manwasblamelessandupright,andonewhofearedGod,andturnedfromevil.