Job’s Children

It collapsed on them, and they are dead.
—Job 1:19

God let Satan kill Job’s children.
Seven sons and three daughters.

But it’s all okay because God later gave Job back
seven sons and three daughters.

Different ones. 
But the same number.

Sometimes Job would take his new ten children
to the graves of the old ten children.

The boys would stand on the graves of the boys.
The girls on the graves of the girls. 

Job would make them stand in age order.
Each had their place by a particular grave.

Sometimes when Job wasn’t looking 
the children would switch places

because they were bored
because they were disobedient

because they wanted to remind each other 
because they wanted to remind themselves

that they were not the same children
as the dead children.

These in the graves were dead.
Those on the graves were alive.

When Job caught them at it, he murdered them all.
Then he went out and bought new children.

Praise
God.