Land of Uz

A name used in literature for an imaginary land (originally: Land of Counsel, possibly in connection to the advice Job received from his friends, or: name of a region in the area of Aram, or southeast of the Jordan River according to some commentators).

("There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil" - Job 1:1, and also: "Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup shall pass over unto thee also: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked" - Lamentations 4:21, and also: "Job never was and was never created, but was a parable. He said to him: About you the verse says: ‘There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job’" - Bava Batra 15a, and also: "There was a man in the land of Uz / a Jewish man, son of Six" - Natan Alterman, Night of War, and also: "If you go from me to the land of Uz or to the good land / give regards to Yiftach, to his daughter" - Natan Yonatan, You, you forget me)

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