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Job 4 · For teachers and parents

Answer Key: Eliphaz Speaks

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.

PreschoolYou Helped the Weak

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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 Helped

HANDS → picture 2TENT → picture 4LION → picture 1FRIEND → picture 3

Grade 1Eliphaz Talks

Eliphaz talked to Job. → picture 2Job had helped the weak. → picture 4Eliphaz talked about lions. → picture 5He said a spirit spoke at night. → picture 1God knows what is true. → picture 3

Order:

1. you have strengthened the weak hands2. you have made the feeble knees firm3. who ever perished, being innocent4. Shall mortal man be more just than God

Grade 2Eliphaz Talks to Job

  1. Who was the first friend to speak? Eliphaz
  2. What had Job done for weak people? He helped them stand strong.
  3. What did Eliphaz think about Job? He thought Job must have done something wrong.
  4. When did Eliphaz say a spirit spoke to him? At night
  5. What did God say at the end of the book? The friends did not speak what was right.
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Grade 3Who Ever Perished Innocent?

  1. What had Job's words done for others? Supported people who were falling and made weak knees firm
  2. What question did Eliphaz ask? Who ever perished, being innocent?
  3. What did Eliphaz say happens to those who plow iniquity? They reap the same.
  4. What did the voice in the night ask? Shall mortal man be more just than God?
  5. What did God later say about the friends? They had not spoken what was right.
1: you have strengthened the weak hands2: you have made the feeble knees firm3: who ever perished, being innocent4: Shall mortal man be more just than God

Grade 4A Friend's Mistaken Answer

  1. How did Eliphaz begin his speech? He reminded Job that he had instructed many and strengthened weak hands.
  2. What was Eliphaz's main idea? Those who plow iniquity reap trouble, so suffering always proves sin.
  3. Why was Eliphaz wrong about Job? God called Job blameless in chapter 1.
  4. What does God say about the friends in Job 42:7? They had not spoken of Him what is right, as Job had.

Word bank: 1. Eliphaz; 2. weak; 3. innocent; 4. God; 5. spirit

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

Grade 5Eliphaz's First Speech

  1. How had Job helped others before his trouble? He instructed many, strengthened weak hands, and supported those who were falling.
  2. What principle shapes Eliphaz's counsel? No innocent person perishes; those who sow trouble reap the same.
  3. What does the prologue show that Eliphaz did not know? Job's trial did not come from his sin.
  4. What did the night voice ask? Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?
  5. What does God tell Eliphaz in Job 42:7? You have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
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Think About It: answers will vary. Look for answers that connect to the passage.

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