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Job 21 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Why Do the Wicked Prosper?

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.

PreschoolListen to Me

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

KindergartenListen

LISTEN → picture 3JOB → picture 1LOVE → picture 4SUN → picture 2

Grade 1Job Answers

Job asked his friends to listen. → picture 4Some bad people have nice houses. → picture 3Their children dance and sing. → picture 1No one can teach God. → picture 5God knows all things. → picture 2

Order:

1. Listen diligently to my speech2. Why do the wicked live3. Their children dance4. Shall any teach God knowledge

Grade 2No One Can Teach God

  1. What did Job ask his friends to do? Listen to him (circle)
  2. What do the children of some bad people do? Dance and sing (circle)
  3. What do some bad people tell God? To go away (circle)
  4. Can anyone teach God? No (circle)
  5. What does God know? All things (circle)
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Grade 3Shall Any Teach God?

  1. What did Job say would be his consolation? That they listen diligently to his speech
  2. What question did Job ask about the wicked? Why do the wicked live, become old, and grow mighty in power?
  3. What do the wicked tell God? Depart from us.
  4. Can anyone teach God knowledge? No
  5. What did Job say about the friends' answers? They were only falsehood.
1: Listen diligently to my speech2: Why do the wicked live3: Their children dance4: Shall any teach God knowledge
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Grade 4The Wicked Often Prosper

  1. What did Job say would be a real comfort? That his friends listen diligently
  2. What do the wicked often have, according to Job? Long lives, safe houses, growing herds, and dancing children
  3. What do the wicked tell God? Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
  4. What did Job ask about the lamp of the wicked? How often it is really put out

Word bank: 1. listen; 2. wicked; 3. children; 4. teach

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

Grade 5Answers That Remain Falsehood

  1. What does Job say will be his consolation? Listen diligently to my speech.
  2. What central claim of the friends is Job challenging? That the wicked always suffer
  3. What do the wicked tell God? Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
  4. How does Job show he is not praising the wicked? He says, The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
  5. How does Job end his speech? So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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