Job Date unknown
Biblical character, a wealthy landowner

There is no objective evidence as to the authorship or date of the text describing this man who is referred to as 'the greatest man in all the East' in wealth, and blameless, upright and god-fearing in character. He was a partly nomadic sheik in the time before Israel's priesthood or organized religion. His writings, possibly translated from Aramaic, are regarded as great Hebrew poetry and placed among the masterpieces of world literature. The subject-matter of his writing is timeless, dealing with the probability of undeserved suffering, the question of why God allows suffering, the need to fight suffering, and God's vindication of and forgiveness for his righteous servant.