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Job 17 · Grade 5

The Righteous Will Hold to His Way

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Job's spirit is consumed, his days are extinct, and the grave seems ready for him. Surely there are mockers with me. He turns to God with a striking request: Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me? Job asks God Himself to guarantee his case, because no one else will. This continues his hope for a heavenly witness from chapter 16.

Job says God has made him a byword of the people, and his eye is dim by reason of sorrow. Upright men will be astonished at this. Then he speaks a confident truth: Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger. Even while suffering, Job believes that perseverance in righteousness leads to strength.

Job tells his friends to come back, for he will not find a wise man among them. They change the night into day, saying the light is near in the presence of darkness. Job feels his plans are broken off and asks, where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it? The question hangs in the air, but the book will answer it when God speaks and restores Job.

Show What You Know

  1. What striking request does Job make of God?

  2. How does this request connect to chapter 16?

  3. What confident truth does Job speak?

  4. What does Job say the friends do with night and day?

  5. How will the book answer Job's question about hope?

Crossword

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Across

  1. My eye also is dim by reason of ____
  2. he who has ____ hands will grow stronger

Down

  1. he who has clean hands will grow ____ and ____
  2. where then is my ____
  3. the righteous will hold to his ____

Think About It

  1. Job believed the righteous grow stronger by holding to their way. How have you seen perseverance make someone stronger?

  2. Job asked God Himself to be his pledge. What does it mean to you that God is the One you can count on?

Memory Verse

“Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.”

Job 17:9 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for helping me hold on to Your way. Help me . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • How can you hold on to hope when you are very sad?
  • What keeps you going when the right path is hard?
  • What is one way you could live out this chapter this week?

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