Author:
Job.
Time of Writing:
According to the way of Job's nomadic living (
1:3) and the way he offered the burnt offering for his children, it seems that this book was written at the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (
1:5;
Gen. 22:13;
31:54), about 2000 B.C., five hundred years before Moses wrote the Pentateuch.
Place of Writing:
The land of Uz (
1:1), an area associated with Edom (
Lam. 4:21), west of the Arabian desert.
Time Period Covered:
The period of time that this book covers cannot be determined with accuracy; however, after his trials Job lived another 140 years (
42:16); making the period of this book close to two hundred years, somewhere around 2000 B.C.
