There is no mention in the Bible of the parents of Job. He is a man from Uz. Biblical genealogy can be found at:
http://www.complete-bible-genealogy.com/person_names_in_the_bible.php?name=job
Here is some interesting information about Job.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/c/1160378547-6702.html
The Qur'an comments about many of the same persons as are in the Bible. Ayyūb (Arabic: أيوب ), which is Arabic for Job, and is considered a prophet in Islam.
Job's prophecy: 4:163, 6:84
Trial and patience: 21:83, 21:84, 38:41, 38:42, 38:44
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, in an article by Kaufmann Kohler and Paul Wendland it is suggested that Job may be Jobab. Aristeas, the Jewish historian, mentioned in Eusebius, "Præp. Ev." ix. 25, who quotes from Alexander Polyhistor's collection of fragments, a passage from a work of Aristeas (in many manuscripts "Aristaios"), entitled Περ Ιουδαίων, which contains the history of Job almost as it is given in the Biblical narrative, but offers much that is noteworthy in regard to the names of personages. Job's original name was "Jobab"; that is, Aristeas identifies Job with the Jobab mentioned in Gen. xxxvi. 33, a great-grandson of Esau.
Aristeas bases his identification on the fact that Eliphaz recurs in the generations of Esau in Gen. xxxvi. 10, 11; that his appellation "Temanite" (Job ii. 11) is found in Gen. xxxvi. 11, 34; that Job's dwelling-place, Uz, is suggested by Gen. xxxvi. 28; and that Zophar occurs at least in Septuagint of Gen. xxxvi. 11, 15.
In the Septuagint "additions" to Job, which agree almost word for word with Aristeas, are found the same substitutions; Jobab stands for Job, Uz is placed in Idumea, and Job's friends are called kings.
If the "addition" to Gen. xxxvi. 33, designates Job's parents, mistaking the last name for that of his mother, it enables us to remedy an error, not of Aristeas, but of Alexander Freudenthal, p. 138). Freudenthal holds it for certain that the author of the "additions" made use of Aristeas. Possibly the reverse is more likely, that the translator supplemented his work with these "additions," as he himself says, from the Syriac, and that they were used by Aristeas. For, in the first place, all uncial manuscripts contain the "additions," and we have no tradition that any one has ever denied that they belonged to the Septuagint (Field, "Hexapla," ii. 82); secondly, Freudenthal (p. 137) points out that when the translator, in Job ii. 11, makes Job's friends kings, in opposition to the original text, he takes a liberty similar to many which appear in the "additions of the Septuagint."
Aristeas' era must be placed between the time of the translation of Job and the epoch of Alexander Polyhistor, probably, therefore, in the second century. Aristeas' work bears no relation to the Letter of Aristeas, although the author of the letter very probably borrows his name from the historian.
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2006-10-08 20:14:31
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answered by Anonymous
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It's not mentioned in the Bible who Job's parents were, and Nitrous, I think you have who your thinking of mixed up, it was Lot who offered his daughters to the men in Soddom.
Job was a man who came later.
2006-10-08 14:53:38
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answered by Bryan M 5
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