Bible Quiz: Book of Job
The oldest question there is, in forty-two chapters — a rich man in the land of Uz, four messengers who arrive one after another, a broken piece of pottery, three friends who sit in silence for a week and then say far too much, a young man named Elihu, a voice out of the whirlwind, a war horse that laughs at the trumpet, and three daughters with names nobody forgets. You get fifteen questions drawn from a bank of 68, and every answer shows the verse behind it, so a miss sends you straight back to the text.
That round moved through the book of Job — the hedge around a good man’s life, a week of silence among the ashes, the friends’ long arguments, a redeemer who lives, the stars and the snow and the sea God asked about, and the day Job prayed for the friends who had hurt him.
Job heard about God for years, then met God. This is a place to start that second part.
Near the end Job says, “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.” Knowing the book is the first half. This free 3-day sample is for the second: short daily readings on what Jesus said and did, and what walking with him looks like on an ordinary, hard or quiet day. Nothing to fall behind on.
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Common Questions About the Book of Job
What is the book of Job actually about?
Job is about one of the hardest questions people ask: why do bad things happen to good people? It opens with a man who has everything, family, wealth, health and a spotless reputation, and loses almost all of it in a single day. Most of the book is a long, honest argument between Job and three friends who are sure his suffering must be a punishment for something he did. Job refuses to accept that. He complains, grieves, demands a hearing and still will not let go of God. In the last chapters God finally speaks out of a whirlwind, not with an explanation but with a tour of creation, from the stars to the sea to the wild animals. Job ends up humbled, restored and praying for the friends who had wounded him. It reads less like a lecture and more like a very long, very human conversation.
Who wrote the book of Job, and when?
Nobody knows for certain. The book never names its author, and unlike most of the Old Testament it gives almost no clues about its date. Job lives in the land of Uz, somewhere east of Israel, and nothing in the story mentions the law of Moses, the temple or the kings of Israel. Job acts as the priest of his own family, offering sacrifices for his children himself, which feels like the world of Abraham. Because of that, many readers place the story very early, in the time of the patriarchs, even if the book was written down later. Jewish tradition once suggested Moses as the author; others have proposed Solomon or a later wise man. What is clear is that the book is poetry for almost all of its length. Only the first two chapters and the last few verses are plain prose.
Who were Job’s friends, and what did they get wrong?
Job’s three friends were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. They travel to comfort him, and for seven days they get it exactly right: they sit on the ground beside him and say nothing, because his grief is so great. Then they start talking. Over many chapters, each one argues some version of the same idea: God rewards the good and punishes the wicked, so if Job is suffering this much, he must have done something to deserve it. Job calls them miserable comforters. A younger man, Elihu, joins in later and is angry with all four of them. At the end, God tells Eliphaz that the three friends have not spoken rightly about God, as Job had, and that Job will pray for them. Their mistake was turning grief into a lesson before they had finished listening.
How do Bible quiz teams study the book of Job?
Job is one of the harder books to quiz on, because most of it is speeches rather than events. Teams usually learn it in three layers. First the frame story in chapters 1, 2 and 42, which is where most factual questions come from: numbers of animals, the four messengers, the names of the friends and the daughters. Then who says what, because many quotable lines belong to the friends rather than Job himself. Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward is Eliphaz, not Job, and questions often turn on exactly that. Finally the whirlwind chapters, 38 to 41, which are full of vivid, memorable images. Short, frequent practice rounds beat long cramming sessions, and saying the chapter and verse aloud with every answer is the habit that wins close matches.
How many questions are in this Job Bible quiz, and can I play it again?
There are 68 questions in the bank, all written specifically for the book of Job and covering the whole book, from the first verse in the land of Uz to Job dying old and full of days. Each round draws fifteen at random and shuffles the answer order, so no two rounds are the same. Every answer shows the chapter and verse it comes from, along with a short note on what is happening in the passage, so a wrong answer points you straight back to the text. It is free, needs no sign-up, saves nothing and nobody sees your score unless you share it. If you are using it for study, play several rounds in a row and notice which chapters keep catching you out. Start a round of the Job quiz above.