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- "Apart from the Bible nothing is known of Job. He was not an Israelite and showed no knowledge of the covenant between Yahweh and his chosen people. Indeed there is not in the book the slightest hint of any acquaintance with the history of the Hebrew people. There is, however, no good reason to question Job's historicity as a well-to-do patriarch who lived east of the Jordan at a time before the emergence of the Hebrews as a nation." (Elmer B. Smick, THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE COMMENTARY, Vol. 4, © 1988 Zondervan, p. 861)