Job 1:1

Job’s virtue and riches. Satan by permission from God strips him of all his substance. His patience.

1 There was a man in the land of Uz named Job, and he was a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil. ^{▼▼1:1The Book of Job is about events in the life of a man named Job. It is also about the future sufferings of the Church. Job is the Church. The sufferings of Job are the sufferings of the Church. The Book of Job is not only about the one man Job who suffered greatly, but it is also about the tribulation of the Church during the end times. There are repeated spiritual references to afflictions also mentioned in the Book of Revelation.(Conte)
,} ^{▼▼1:1 Hus: The land of Hus was a part of Edom; as appears from Lam. 4.21.(Challoner)
,} ^{▼▼1:1 Simple: That is, innocent, sincere, and without guile.(Challoner)}