or Utz, the country and place of residence of Job. In the genealogy of the patriarchs there are three persons called Uz, either of which might give this district its name. The first was the grandson of Sem, by his son Aram (Gen. xxii. 23.), who, according to Josephus, occupied the Trachonitis, and Damascus, to the north of Palestine: but Job was among the sons of the East. Another Uz was the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother (Gen. x. 21.), who appears to have removed, after passing the Euphrates, from Haran of Mesopotamia to Arabia Deferta. The third Uz was a Horite, from Mount Seir (Gen. xxxvi. 28.), and thus not of Eber's posterity. Now the question is, from which of these Job's country, Uz, took its name: Not from the first, as is already shewn; nor from the second, because his country is always called Seir, or Edom, never Uz; and then called a south, not an east, country, in Scripture. It therefore remains, that we look for the country and place of residence of Job in Arabia Deferta; for which there were very probable reasons. The plunderers of Job are called Chaldeans and Sabeans, next neighbours to him. These Sabeans came not from Arabia Felix, but from a nearer Sabe in Arabia Deferta (Ptolemy); and his friends, except Eliphaz the Temanite, were of Arabia Deferta.