Here’s a readers’ theatre setting of Job 42:1-6, 10-17 (The Voice™. http://www.hearthevoice.com/ translation). It is set for three readers.
Readers’ Theatre
(Job
42:1-6, 10-13, 16-17)
One: Job said to God:
Two: I know You can do everything;
nothing You do can be foiled or
frustrated.
You asked,
Three: Who is this that conceals
counsel
with empty words void
of knowledge?
Two: and now I see that I spoke of—but did not
comprehend—
great wonders that are beyond me.
I didn’t know.
You said,
Three: Hear Me now, and I will
speak.
I’ll be asking the
questions,
and you will supply
the answers.
Two: Before I knew only what I heard of You,
but now I have seen You.
Therefore I realize the truth:
I disavow and mourn all I have said
and repent in dust and ash.
One: The Eternal One restored
the fortunes of Job
after he prayed for
his friends;
He even doubled the
wealth he had before.
All of his brothers
and sisters,
along with those he
had known earlier,
came and shared meals
with him at his house.
They sympathized with
him and consoled him
regarding the great
distress the Eternal had brought on him.
Each guest gave him a
sum of money and each, a golden ring.
The Eternal One
blessed the last part of Job’s life
even more than the
first part.
He went on to possess 14,000
sheep,
6,000 camels,
1,000 teams of oxen,
and 1,000 female donkeys.
He also fathered seven
more sons and three more daughters.
After all this, Job
lived 140 years.
He lived to see his
children and their children and so on,
to the fourth
generation.
Then Job died,
old, and satisfied
with his days.
~ Scripture taken from The Voice™. http://www.hearthevoice.com/ Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008 by
Ecclesia Bible Society. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
