Job chapter 1, part 1

After reading chapter 1:

*The setting of this story is the land of Uz.  If we go back to scriptures that mention people named Uz and assume that the land of Uz was named after one of them, we have:
1. Genesis 10:23. Uz is the grandson of Shem and the son of Aram, father of the Arameans.
2. Genesis 22:21. Uz is a nephew of  Abraham and the brother of Kemuel, who is  called the father of Aram. My study bible says the children of Nahor, Abraham's brother, Uz's  and Kemuel's father, became the ancestors of twelve Aramean tribes. Will the real Arameans please stand up.
3. Genesis 36:28 Uz is a descendant of Esau and clearly an Edomite.
My study bible tries to solve the problem of which Uz and where by smooshing them all together into "a large territory from Edom in the south to Aram in the north." There is currently no way to know for sure where Uz was, or if it ever existed. For all we know, it may be as fictional as the land of Oz.

*The main character of this story is Job, an "upright and blameless" man in the NIV version. Interestingly enough, the first word of this book in the interlinear Hebrew text means "perfect," describing Job. Christianity, on the other hand,  is predicated on the position that noone can be perfect except God.

*Job is said to have had seven sons (the perfect number) and three daughters. He also had 7,000 sheep, 5,000 camels, 500 yoke (pairs) of oxen, 500 donkeys, and a lot of servants. Do you realize how much land would be needed to support that many animals and all the people needed to care for them? In other words, Job was an extremely wealthy man.  In fact, he is said to have been the greatest of all the men in the east at that time. (When was that time?) This would practically make him the ruler of a  kingdom, presumably east of the Jordan River.

*Job's children threw big parties on their birthdays, inviting their brothers and sisters. Job was afraid these parties would be the downfall of his children by causing them to sin or curse God. What kind of "sins" was Job worried about? Why would they curse God? Too much to drink? The day after a party, Job would sacrifice a burnt offering on behalf of each child. The passage doesn't say what Job thought could happen if he didn't make the sacrifices. Apparently Job has not heard any  rules about sacrifices to Yahweh only being made by priests, and only at the location of the ark of the covenant. Poor man, he seems to have been a victim of religious scrupulosity.