Job.

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.

The land of Uz (1:1), an area associated with Edom (Lam. 4:21), west of the Arabian desert.

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.