Q 01/05

What does Job's wife urge him to do after asking whether he still holds to his integrity?

A) Curse God and die

B) Repent in sackcloth

C) Pray for healing

D) Sacrifice a ram

Answer · why

A) Curse God and die

Curse God and die is the only line Job's wife speaks in the whole book, and Job answers that she talks like one of the foolish women. She is never nam...

Q 02/05

In which land does the Book of Job place its hero, a man 'perfect and upright' who eschewed evil?

A) Ur

B) Uz

C) Nod

D) On

Answer · why

B) Uz

Uz is named in the book's opening verse, and because Lamentations puts the 'daughter of Edom' in the land of Uz, the story is usually set outside Isra...

Q 03/05

Out of what does God finally answer Job, demanding 'Gird up now thy loins like a man'?

A) A burning bush

B) A pillar of cloud

C) A whirlwind

D) A still small voice

Answer · why

C) A whirlwind

A whirlwind is where God speaks from in chapter 38, and instead of explaining Job's suffering he fires off questions about the sea, the snow and the w...

Q 04/05

Which affliction does Satan inflict on Job 'from the sole of his foot unto his crown'?

A) Leprosy

B) Blindness

C) Fever

D) Boils

Answer · why

D) Boils

Boils cover Job from sole to crown, yet the text insists that 'in all this did not Job sin with his lips', the same verdict given after his first loss...

Q 05/05

What does Job pick up to scrape himself with after Satan afflicts his body?

A) A potsherd

B) A sharp stone

C) A bone knife

D) A bronze razor

Answer · why

A) A potsherd

A potsherd is a shard of broken pottery, and Job is so disfigured that when his three friends arrive they do not recognise him from a distance.