When was job alive in the bible

September 24, Print this article Tweet. Help us share God's Word where needed most. Sign up to stay in touch with how God is changing lives with his Word! Also receive Bible-reading tips, tools and resources. Another proof focuses on what God said about Job. Returning to the Genesis genealogy, we find that Job must have lived after all the sons of Jacob died and before Moses — in a time in which there were no other faithful people.

That would conflict with the Scripture that there was no man on the earth like him Job , because Abraham was a man of faith. Abraham received the promise that in him and his seed, all the families of the earth would be blessed. God bless you and this ministry. If so, how do we reconcile what we read in 1 Chronicles , where we have a list of the sons of Judah, which it leads to the name Ram.

This Nahor fathered two sons named Huz and Buz. This Buz fathered the Buzites family. Thus this Elihu is a descendent of Abraham and Nahor. Isaac married Rebekah. Please teach us. When was the book of Job written? Finally, that Job lived long before the time of Moses seems evident by the fact that the longevity of his life is more comparable to the long lives of the patriarchs who lived around B.

Then, after suffering greatly, losing all of his children and his material wealth, God blessed Job with 10 more children and twice as much wealth Thus, it would appear that Job lived well into his s or beyond. Interestingly, the Septuagint testifies that Job died at the age of —an age more comparable to the ancestors of Abraham e.