{"id":117160,"date":"2026-09-28T15:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/?page_id=117160"},"modified":"2026-09-28T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:20:53","slug":"bible-quiz-job","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bgodinspired.com\/index.php\/bible-quiz-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Quiz: Book of Job"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- BGodInspired Bible Quiz: Book of Job -->\n<link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Playfair+Display:ital,wght@0,400;0,600;0,700;1,400;1,600&#038;family=Inter:wght@300;400;500;600&#038;display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\n<style>\n#bgi-game-bible-quiz-job *, #bgi-game-bible-quiz-job *::before, #bgi-game-bible-quiz-job *::after { box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0; padding: 0; }\n#bgi-game-bible-quiz-job {\n  --navy: #0D1B2A; --navy-mid: #162233; --cream: #F5F0E8;\n  --sage: #7B9E87; --sage-dim: #5E7A69; --clay: #C4847B; --gold: #C9A84C;\n  --dim: rgba(245,240,232,0.62); 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Which one completes the list: \\\"perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and...\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"...eschewed evil\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...walked humbly\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...kept the law\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...loved mercy\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:1\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.\\\" To eschew is to shun or avoid.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How many children did Job have at the start of the book?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Seven sons and three daughters\",\n\"Ten sons and two daughters\",\n\"Twelve sons\",\n\"Three sons and seven daughters\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:2\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"There were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.\\\" In chapter 42 the number is exactly the same: seven sons and three daughters again.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How many camels did Job own before his losses?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Three thousand\",\n\"Seven thousand\",\n\"Five hundred\",\n\"One thousand\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:3\",\n\"fact\": \"Seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred she asses.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How does Job 1:3 rank Job among his neighbours?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The greatest of all the men of the east\",\n\"The richest man in Egypt\",\n\"The wisest man in the land of Uz\",\n\"The eldest of all the kings of Edom\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:3\",\n\"fact\": \"His household was so great \\\"that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Why did Job rise early and offer burnt offerings after his children's feasts?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"In case his sons had sinned and cursed God in their hearts\",\n\"To thank God for a good harvest\",\n\"Because a prophet had warned him of disaster\",\n\"To celebrate the birth of a grandchild\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:5\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"When the LORD asked Satan where he had come from, what was the answer?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it\\\"\",\n\"\\\"From the depths of the sea\\\"\",\n\"\\\"From the gates of the city\\\"\",\n\"\\\"From the tents of Kedar\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:7\",\n\"fact\": \"The same answer is given word for word a second time in Job 2:2.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Finish Satan's question: \\\"Doth Job fear God...\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"...for nought?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...in secret?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...with all his heart?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...when no man seeth?\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:9\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Doth Job fear God for nought?\\\" The whole book turns on this question: is Job's faith just a good deal he is getting?\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did Satan say God had put around Job, his house and all he had?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"An hedge\",\n\"A wall of fire\",\n\"A cloud\",\n\"A band of angels\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:10\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side?\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Who fell upon Job's oxen and asses and carried them away?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The Sabeans\",\n\"The Chaldeans\",\n\"The Philistines\",\n\"The Amalekites\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:14-15\",\n\"fact\": \"The oxen were ploughing and the asses feeding beside them when the Sabeans struck. The Chaldeans took the camels in verse 17.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"According to the second messenger, what burned up Job's sheep and servants?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"The fire of God is fallen from heaven\\\"\",\n\"A fire set by raiders from the south\",\n\"Lightning during a great storm\",\n\"A fire that spread from a neighbour's field\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:16\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How many bands did the Chaldeans form to take Job's camels?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Three\",\n\"Two\",\n\"Four\",\n\"Seven\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:17\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What killed Job's sons and daughters?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"A great wind struck the house where they were feasting\",\n\"A raid by the Sabeans\",\n\"A plague that swept the land\",\n\"An earthquake during the night\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:18-19\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"There came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Which line does every one of the four messengers repeat?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"I only am escaped alone to tell thee\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Woe is me, for I am undone\\\"\",\n\"\\\"The hand of the LORD is upon thee\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Flee, for the enemy is at hand\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:15-19\",\n\"fact\": \"Each messenger arrives \\\"while he was yet speaking\\\" and ends with the same words, so the four losses land almost at once.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What was Job's first response after hearing all four reports?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"He tore his robe, shaved his head, fell to the ground and worshipped\",\n\"He cursed the day he was born\",\n\"He sent for his three friends\",\n\"He sat in silence for seven days\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:20\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped.\\\" Cursing his birthday comes later, in chapter 3.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Finish Job's words: \\\"the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away...\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"...blessed be the name of the LORD\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...who can say unto the LORD, What doest thou?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...and my soul is weary of my life\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...yet will I wait upon the LORD\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 1:21\",\n\"fact\": \"It opens with \\\"Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"When Satan came before the LORD a second time, what proverb did he use?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"Skin for skin\\\"\",\n\"\\\"An eye for an eye\\\"\",\n\"\\\"As the tree falleth, so it lieth\\\"\",\n\"\\\"The fathers have eaten sour grapes\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 2:4\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.\\\" The claim: touch his body and his faith will break.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What one limit did the LORD set when Job was put into Satan's hand the second time?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Spare his life\",\n\"Do not touch his wife\",\n\"Do not touch his eyes\",\n\"Only for forty days\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 2:6\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.\\\" The first round's limit was different: \\\"only upon himself put not forth thine hand\\\" (1:12).\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did Job use to scrape his sores?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"A potsherd, a broken piece of pottery\",\n\"A shepherd's knife\",\n\"A rough stone from the field\",\n\"A piece of sackcloth\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 2:8\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"He took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did Job's wife say to him?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Arise, and let us go down into Egypt.\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Pray unto the LORD, and thou shalt be healed.\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Thy friends are coming; make ready.\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 2:9\",\n\"fact\": \"She had lost all ten children too. Job's reply is in the next verse.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How did Job answer his wife?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.\\\"\",\n\"\\\"The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away.\\\"\",\n\"\\\"I know that my redeemer liveth.\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 2:10\",\n\"fact\": \"The verse closes: \\\"In all this did not Job sin with his lips.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Which of these was NOT one of Job's three friends who came to comfort him?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Elihu the Buzite\",\n\"Eliphaz the Temanite\",\n\"Bildad the Shuhite\",\n\"Zophar the Naamathite\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 2:11; 32:2\",\n\"fact\": \"The three were Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar. Elihu, a younger man, only speaks up much later, in chapter 32.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"When the three friends first arrived, how long did they sit with Job without speaking?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Seven days and seven nights\",\n\"Three days and three nights\",\n\"Forty days\",\n\"One full day\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 2:13\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"None spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.\\\" Many readers think this silence was the best thing they did.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How did the friends react when they first saw Job from a distance?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"They did not recognise him, wept aloud, tore their robes and threw dust toward heaven\",\n\"They turned back, afraid of his disease\",\n\"They ran to him and embraced him\",\n\"They offered a sacrifice on his behalf\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 2:12\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"They lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What does Job do when he finally speaks in chapter 3?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"He curses the day he was born\",\n\"He praises God for his life\",\n\"He demands that his friends leave\",\n\"He asks God to restore his children\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 3:1\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.\\\" Chapter 3 is a lament, not an attack on God.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Finish Job 3:25: \\\"For the thing which I greatly feared...\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"...is come upon me\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...I have not found\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...hath passed me by\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...the LORD hath removed\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 3:25\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"...is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Which friend describes a spirit passing before his face at night that made \\\"the hair of my flesh\\\" stand up?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Eliphaz\",\n\"Bildad\",\n\"Zophar\",\n\"Elihu\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 4:12-15\",\n\"fact\": \"Eliphaz speaks first and bases part of his case on this night vision.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"\\\"Yet man is born unto trouble, as...\\\" what?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"...the sparks fly upward\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...the grass withereth\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...the river runneth to the sea\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...the night followeth the day\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 5:7\",\n\"fact\": \"This line, often quoted, is spoken by Eliphaz, not by Job.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Job says his days are swifter than what?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"A weaver's shuttle\",\n\"An eagle in flight\",\n\"A runner in the race\",\n\"An arrow from the bow\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 7:6\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.\\\" (In 9:25 he adds that they are \\\"swifter than a post\\\" - a runner.)\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"\\\"Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?\\\" Who said it?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Bildad\",\n\"Eliphaz\",\n\"Zophar\",\n\"Job\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 8:1, 11\",\n\"fact\": \"Bildad's point: nothing thrives without its source, so trouble must mean something was cut off.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Job wishes for a \\\"daysman\\\" between himself and God (Job 9:33). What is a daysman?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"An umpire or go-between who could lay a hand on both\",\n\"A hired labourer paid by the day\",\n\"A watchman on the city wall\",\n\"A priest who serves for one day\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 9:33\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.\\\" Christians have long read this wish as pointing toward Jesus.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Job 9:9 names God as the maker of which stars?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Arcturus, Orion and Pleiades\",\n\"The Great Bear and the Little Bear\",\n\"Sirius and the Morning Star\",\n\"The Twins and the Scales\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 9:9\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.\\\" God asks Job about the same stars in 38:31-32.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Who asked, \\\"Canst thou by searching find out God?\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Zophar\",\n\"Bildad\",\n\"Eliphaz\",\n\"Elihu\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 11:1, 7\",\n\"fact\": \"Zophar the Naamathite, the third friend to speak. The question is fair; how he uses it against Job is not.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Finish the verse: \\\"Though he slay me...\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"...yet will I trust in him\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...I will not let thee go\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...my soul shall magnify the LORD\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...yet shall I see God\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 13:15\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"\\\"Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and...\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"...full of trouble\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...his end is dust\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...knoweth not his way\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...as grass that withereth\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 14:1\",\n\"fact\": \"Chapter 14 is Job's long meditation on how short life is. It is quoted in many funeral services.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"In Job 14, what does Job say has more hope than a man, because it can sprout again after being cut down?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"A tree\",\n\"The grass of the field\",\n\"A vine\",\n\"The moon\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 14:7\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again.\\\" Then he asks, \\\"If a man die, shall he live again?\\\" (14:14).\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did Job call his three friends in Job 16:2?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"Miserable comforters\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Physicians of no value\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Whited sepulchres\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Broken cisterns\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 16:2\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.\\\" (He calls them \\\"physicians of no value\\\" in 13:4.)\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Which everyday English phrase comes from Job 19:20?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"By the skin of my teeth\\\"\",\n\"\\\"A drop in the bucket\\\"\",\n\"\\\"The writing on the wall\\\"\",\n\"\\\"A labour of love\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 19:20\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.\\\" (\\\"A drop of a bucket\\\" is Isaiah 40:15.)\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How did Job wish his words could be preserved?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Carved with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever\",\n\"Sealed in a jar of clay\",\n\"Written on the doorposts of his house\",\n\"Read aloud at the gate every sabbath\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 19:23-24\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!\\\" In a sense, the wish came true.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Finish Job's great statement of hope: \\\"For I know that my redeemer liveth...\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"...and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...and he will restore my children unto me\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...and he will judge between me and my friends\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...and he shall deliver me from the pit\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 19:25\",\n\"fact\": \"The following verses add: \\\"yet in my flesh shall I see God\\\" (19:26).\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"\\\"But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as...\\\" what?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Gold\",\n\"Silver\",\n\"A morning star\",\n\"A tree planted by the rivers\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 23:10\",\n\"fact\": \"Job is speaking in chapter 23, at a point where he cannot find God in any direction he looks (23:8-9).\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Job 26:7 says God \\\"hangeth the earth upon\\\" what?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Nothing\",\n\"Pillars\",\n\"The waters\",\n\"The four winds\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 26:7\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Job 28 asks where wisdom can be found. What answer does the chapter end with?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding\",\n\"Wisdom is found in the counsel of the aged\",\n\"Wisdom lies in the depths of the sea\",\n\"Wisdom is bought with the gold of Ophir\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 28:28\",\n\"fact\": \"The chapter says wisdom cannot be mined or bought (28:15-19), and ends: \\\"Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Looking back on his good years, Job says, \\\"I was eyes to the blind, and...\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"...feet was I to the lame\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...bread to the hungry\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...a father to the fatherless\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...a shelter to the stranger\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 29:15\",\n\"fact\": \"The next verse: \\\"I was a father to the poor.\\\" Chapter 29 remembers how the town once stood up when Job came to the gate.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"In chapter 31, Job says he made a covenant with what?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"His eyes\",\n\"His tongue\",\n\"His hands\",\n\"His household\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 31:1\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?\\\" Chapter 31 is Job's long oath of innocence.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Why did Elihu wait so long before speaking?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Because the others were older than he\",\n\"Because he had just arrived\",\n\"Because Job had asked him to be silent\",\n\"Because he was mourning for seven days\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 32:4, 6\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.\\\" He says: \\\"I am young, and ye are very old.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Whose son was Elihu?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Barachel the Buzite\",\n\"Eliphaz the Temanite\",\n\"Hamor the Hivite\",\n\"Kish the Benjamite\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 32:2\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram.\\\" He was angry with Job and with the three friends.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"How did the LORD finally answer Job?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Out of the whirlwind\",\n\"In a still small voice\",\n\"Through a dream by night\",\n\"By an angel at the door\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 38:1\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind.\\\" The \\\"still small voice\\\" belongs to Elijah (1 Kings 19:12).\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What is the first question the LORD asks Job from the whirlwind?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"What doest thou here, Job?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Who told thee that thou wast naked?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Whom shall I send?\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 38:4\",\n\"fact\": \"After \\\"Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?\\\" (38:2), this is where the questions begin, and they run for four chapters.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"At the creation of the earth, what did the morning stars do, according to Job 38?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"They sang together\",\n\"They fell from heaven\",\n\"They hid their faces\",\n\"They stood still\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 38:7\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"What did God say to the sea, according to Job 38:11?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Be still, and know\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Divide, and let my people pass\\\"\",\n\"\\\"Return unto thy place and rest\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 38:11\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"God asks Job whether he has entered \\\"the treasures of\\\" what?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The snow\",\n\"The mountains\",\n\"The deep\",\n\"The morning\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 38:22\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail?\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"\\\"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of...\\\"\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"...Orion?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...Arcturus?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...the Bear?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...the Twins?\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 38:31\",\n\"fact\": \"The next verse asks about Mazzaroth and Arcturus \\\"with his sons.\\\"\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Which animal in Job 39 \\\"saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha\\\" and smells the battle from far off?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"The war horse\",\n\"The wild ass\",\n\"The unicorn\",\n\"The eagle\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 39:19-25\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?... He mocketh at fear.\\\" The horse passage is one of the most vivid in the book.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"Which creature is described in Job 40 as one that \\\"eateth grass as an ox\\\"?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Behemoth\",\n\"Leviathan\",\n\"The unicorn\",\n\"The wild goat\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 40:15\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.\\\" Leviathan follows in chapter 41.\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"\\\"Canst thou draw out leviathan with...\\\" what?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"\\\"...an hook?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...a net?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...a sword?\\\"\",\n\"\\\"...a cord of three strands?\\\"\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 41:1\",\n\"fact\": \"Chapter 41 is almost entirely about leviathan: \\\"out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out\\\" (41:19).\"\n},\n{\n\"q\": \"After God's first speech, what does Job say he will do with his hand?\",\n\"opts\": [\n\"Lay it upon his mouth\",\n\"Raise it toward heaven\",\n\"Place it on the altar\",\n\"Strike his breast with it\"\n],\n\"correct\": 0,\n\"ref\": \"Job 40:4\",\n\"fact\": \"\\\"Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? 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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who wrote the book of Job, and when?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who were Job&#8217;s friends, and what did they get wrong?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Job&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do Bible quiz teams study the book of Job?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How many questions are in this Job Bible quiz, and can I play it again?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>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. 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