The Book of Job teacher pack
Five weeks of lessons on The Book of Job for ages 14 to 18: a plan, a worksheet and the answers for each week, a final essay with a marking guide, and a reading certificate to print. Free to use in class.
Five weeks, week by week
- Week 1Chapters 1 to 8
Job loses his possessions, children, and health, while his responses and his friends’ arguments raise questions about loyalty, suffering, and comfort.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 2Chapters 9 to 17
Job seeks a fair hearing, challenges his friends’ claims to wisdom, and describes how suffering and approaching death narrow his hopes.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 3Chapters 18 to 25
The friends describe punishment for wickedness, while Job challenges their certainty through examples of prosperity, cruelty, and justice that seems absent.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 4Chapters 26 to 34
Job defends his integrity and recalls lost respect, while reflections on wisdom and Elihu’s speeches introduce further explanations of suffering.
Plan · worksheet · answers - Week 5Chapters 35 to 42
Elihu defends divine justice, God questions Job about creation, and Job’s repentance and prayer accompany the rebuke of his friends and restoration.
Plan · worksheet · answers
Assessment
Final essay
Three questions to choose from, 800 to 1,200 words, with a marking guide in four bands.
Quiz bank
The 30 questions and 40 flashcards online, for homework or a quick check in class. Open the quiz
Discussion
Questions for small groups, meeting by meeting. The book club kit
Reading certificate
Certificate of reading
Student's name
has read
The Book of Job
by Anonymous
Teacher and class
Free for 3 months
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