Job 1:3 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Job 1:3

Job and His Family in Uz

1 There was a man ^ain the land of Uz, whose name was ^bJob; and that man was ^cblameless and upright, and one who ^dfeared God and shunned evil.

2 And seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

3 Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the¹ people of the East.

4 And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

5 So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and¹ sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning ^aand offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and ^bcursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did regularly.

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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she-asses—prized on account of their milk, and for riding (Judges 5:10). Houses and lands are not mentioned among the emir's wealth, as nomadic tribes dwell in movable tents and live chiefly by pasture, the right to the soil not being appropriated by individuals. The "five hundred yoke of oxen" imply, however, that Job tilled the soil. He seems also to have had a dwelling in a town, in which respect he differed from the patriarchs. Camels are well called "ships of the desert," especially valuable for caravans, as being able to lay in a store of water that suffices them for days, and to sustain life on a very few thistles or thorns.

household— (Genesis 26:14). The other rendering which the Hebrew admits, "husbandry," is not so probable.

men of the east—denoting in Scripture those living east of Palestine; as the people of North Arabia-Deserta (Judges 6:3; Ezekiel 25:4).

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