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Job 2 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Job's Friends Come to Comfort Him

Answers here are a guide. Welcome any answer that shows a child is thinking about the story, and celebrate their effort. Talk About It questions are open, so they have no set answers.

PreschoolFriends Who Came

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Coloring and finding page: any careful coloring is a win. Help your child point to and name each picture above.

KindergartenFriends Came

FRIENDS → picture 4JOB → picture 3LOVE → picture 2TREE → picture 1

Grade 1Sitting with Job

Job got very sick. → picture 3Job did not sin with his lips. → picture 5Three friends came to see Job. → picture 2They sat with him seven days and seven nights. → picture 4Good friends care when someone is sad. → picture 1

Order:

1. struck Job with painful sores2. Shall we receive good at the hand of God3. Job's three friends heard of all this evil4. So they sat down with him on the ground seven days

Grade 2Friends Sit with Job

  1. What did God say Satan could not take? Job's life
  2. Where did Job sit? Among the ashes
  3. What did Job say we can get from God? Good things, and we can also take hard things.
  4. Who were Job's three friends? Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar
  5. How long did the friends sit with Job? Seven days and seven nights
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Grade 3Seven Days of Silence

  1. What did the Lord say Job still held fast? His integrity
  2. What did Job use to scrape himself? A broken piece of pottery
  3. What did Job ask his wife? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?
  4. What did the friends do when they first saw Job? They wept, tore their robes, and threw dust on their heads.
  5. Why did no one speak to Job? They saw that his grief was very great.
1: struck Job with painful sores2: Shall we receive good at the hand of God3: Job's three friends heard of all this evil4: So they sat down with him on the ground seven days

Grade 4Holding Fast in Pain

  1. What did Satan claim about Job? That if Job's own bone and flesh were touched, Job would renounce God
  2. What command did Yahweh give Satan? To spare Job's life
  3. What did Job ask his wife? Whether we should receive good from God and not also receive trouble
  4. How did the three friends first show their sorrow? They wept aloud, tore their robes, and sprinkled dust on their heads.

Word bank: 1. God; 2. sores; 3. ashes; 4. wife; 5. good

Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

Grade 5Shall We Not Receive Evil?

  1. What did Yahweh add about Job in the second test? That Job still maintained his integrity, though Satan incited Him against Job to ruin him without cause
  2. What limit did Yahweh set for Satan? Only spare his life.
  3. How did Job answer his wife? She spoke as one of the foolish women; shall we receive good at the hand of God, and not evil?
  4. What did Job not do with his lips? He didn't sin with his lips.
  5. What did the friends do for seven days and seven nights? They sat with him on the ground, and no one spoke a word.
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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