Bible Verses About Uz
This collection includes 7 passages about Uz. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
Reading context: This Uz is listed among Aram’s children.
Scripture Passages
The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.
Reading context: This Uz is listed among Dishan’s children in a different family line.
The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
Reading context: Compare this genealogy with Genesis 10:23.
The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran.
Reading context: This corresponds to the family of Dishan in Genesis 36:28.
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 eschewed evil.
Reading context: Uz is the land where Job lives, not the name of Job himself.
And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
Reading context: The land of Uz is included among nations addressed in the passage.
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
Reading context: The address is to Edom dwelling in the land of Uz; read the warning through verse 22.
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Uz appears as a personal name in genealogies and as the name of a land. Genesis 10 and Genesis 36 place people named Uz in different family lines; Job 1 identifies Job’s home as the land of Uz. This collection distinguishes those settings instead of assuming every occurrence names the same person.
People named Uz
Compare Genesis 10:23 with Genesis 36:28, and their family lines in 1 Chronicles 1:17 and 1:42. The parents and surrounding names differ.
The land of Uz
Job 1:1 sets Job’s story in Uz. Jeremiah 25:20 lists its kings among the nations addressed, while Lamentations 4:21 addresses Edom dwelling in Uz. These are references to a land, not biographies of the people in the genealogies.
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