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Job 3 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Job Pours Out His Sorrow

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.

PreschoolJob Is Very Sad

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

KindergartenJob Was Sad

JOB → picture 4CLOUD → picture 3NIGHT → picture 1HEART → picture 2

Grade 1Telling How He Felt

Job spoke after seven days. → picture 5Job was very sad. → picture 1Job had no rest. → picture 4Job told how he felt. → picture 2We can tell God how we feel. → picture 3

Order:

1. Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth2. Let the day perish in which I was born3. There the weary are at rest4. I am not at ease, neither am I quiet

Grade 2Job Speaks

  1. When did Job speak? After his friends sat with him seven days
  2. What did Job wish? That he had not been born
  3. What did Job say had come to him? The thing he was afraid of
  4. What did Job say he did not have? Rest and quiet (circle)
  5. Did Job curse God? No. He told how he truly felt.
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Grade 3Why Is Light Given?

  1. What did Job curse? The day of his birth
  2. What did Job wish about that day? That it had been darkness and light had not shone on it
  3. What did Job say about the weary in the grave? They are at rest.
  4. What question did Job ask about light? Why is light given to someone in misery?
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Grade 4Honest Grief

  1. What did Job curse, and what did he not curse? He cursed the day of his birth, but he did not curse God.
  2. How did Job picture the grave? As a place where the weary are at rest and the wicked cease from troubling
  3. What did Job ask about light? Why light is given to him who is in misery
  4. How did Job describe himself at the end? Not at ease, not quiet, no rest, but trouble came

Word bank: 1. day; 2. God; 3. darkness; 4. light; 5. rest

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

Grade 5The Lament of Job

  1. What does Job do when the seven days of silence end? He opens his mouth and curses the day of his birth.
  2. How does Job imagine the grave? As rest, where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest
  3. How has the idea of a hedge changed from chapter 1? Satan spoke of a hedge of blessing; now Job feels God has hedged him in.
  4. How does Job describe his groanings? Poured out like water
  5. How does Job end his lament? He says he has no ease, no quiet, no rest, but trouble comes.
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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