Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Job trivia. The given name Job is mentioned 3 times in the Old Testament outside the book of Job, and once in the New Testament. Uz, as a person's name, is mentioned 4 times in the Old Testament.
Where does Job fit on the timeline of biblical history?
Gen 5
[
1] This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that
God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
[
2]
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and
called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Gen 5
[
3] And
Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and
begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name
Seth:
Gen 5
[
6] And
Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat
Enos:
Gen 5
[
9] And
Enos lived ninety years, and begat
Cainan:
Gen 5
[
12] And
Cainan lived seventy years, and begat
Mahalaleel:
Gen 5
[
15] And
Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat
Jared:
Gen 5
[
18] And
Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat
Enoch:
Gen 5
[
21] And
Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat
Methuselah:
Gen 5
[
25] And
Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat
Lamech:
Gen 5
[
28] And
Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and
begat a son:
[
29] And he called his name
Noah,
Gen 10
[
1] Now these are the generations of
the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth:
Gen 10
[
22] The children of
Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and
Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
Gen 10
[
32] These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and
by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Gen 11
[
9] Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did
the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Gen 11
[
10] ...
Shem was an hundred years old, and begat
Arphaxad two years after the flood:
Gen 11
[
12] And
Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat
Salah:
Gen 11
[
14] And
Salah lived thirty years, and begat
Eber:
Gen11
[
16] And
Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat
Peleg:
Gen 11
[
18] And
Peleg lived thirty years, and begat
Reu:
Gen 11
[
20] And
Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat
Serug:
Gen 11
[22] And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
Gen 11
[
24] And
Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat
Terah:
Gen 11
[
26] And
Terah lived seventy years, and begat
Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Gen 17
[
5]
Neither shall thy name
any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be
Abraham;
Gen 25
[
19] And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son:
Abraham begat Isaac:
Gen 25
[
20] And
Isaac was forty years old when he took
Rebekah to wife,
Gen 25
[
26] And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and
his name was called Jacob: and
Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.
Gen 35
[
10] And God said unto him, Thy name is
Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but
Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
Gen 35
[
22] And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard it. Now
the sons of Jacob were twelve:
[
23]
The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and
Issachar, and Zebulun:
Gen.46
[13] And
the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and
Job, and Shimron.
1Chr.7
[1] Now
the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah,
Jashub, and Shimron, four.
Numbers 26
[
23]
Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of
Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of
Pua, the family of the Punites:
[
24] Of
Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of
Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
[
25] These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
Job
1
[
1] There was a man
in the land of Uz, whose
name was
Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
[
2] And there were born unto him
seven sons and
three daughters.
