When was the book of Job written....

I was asked would I have any idea when the book of Job was written, I don't, but it did lead me to go and do some checking, so, this is what I found.....


In Genesis 36 v 10-12: These are the names of Esau’s sons: ( that’s Jacob’s brother)


Eliphaz the son of Esau’s wife Adah, Reuel the son of Esau’s wife Basemath. The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho and Gatam and Kenaz.  Timna was a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.


Now, Biblically, we follow Jacob's generation, as they eventually become God's chosen people, but that did not mean there were not other people who lived there as well, as we see above with the genealogy of Esau.


I also believe that that genealogy was there for a reason, and I think the reason is this, that it proves the book of Job belonging where it is.


One of Job's friends was named Eliphaz the Temanite......(there were three of them) we home in on one........


One of Esau's sons was named Eliphaz and he built a city called Teman


1 Chronicles 1v 35-36 “The sons of Esau were Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam and Korah.  The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar.......


(Eliphaz-of-Esau lived in the city named after his own son Teman, and was therefore called a Temanite. All this could mean that Job's friend, Eliphaz the Temanite, was the son of Esau, and the father of Teman who built the city where obviously the Temanites resided.


In Job chapter 4:v 8-9 Eliphaz says; "According to what I have seen, those who plough wrongdoing And those who sow trouble harvest it. By the breath of God they perish, And by the blast of His anger they come to an end.” (accusing Job of having done something terribly wrong, for God to punish him like this)


  Well with Esau as a father, that would be the kind of thing he’d say, wouldn’t he!


Blessings...Yaddy