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The Places of Job

Job names 10 places; Naamah, Ophir and Chaldea most often. 10 of them can be put on a map, 6 with confidence. The places and their references are OpenBible.info’s, which gathers what modern atlases and commentaries say about where each one stood.

Map of From Egypt to Persia with the places named in Job. Every place is listed in the table below.30°E35°E40°E45°E50°E25°N30°N35°N40°NTemaZaphonChaldeaEastTemaUzZaphonN0400 km
  • Located with confidence
  • Location uncertain
  • Mountain
From Egypt to Persia, with the coasts and lakes as they lie today. 4 places lie beyond the plate and are in the table.

Every place in Job

The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn. References follow the chapter and verse numbering of the English Bible, which differs from the Septuagint’s in places.

PlaceReferencesSourceConfidence
NaamahBeyond this plate.2:11, 11:1, 20:1, 42:9OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 67)
OphirBeyond this plate.22:24, 28:16OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 190)
Chaldea1:17OpenBible.infoHigh
East1:3OpenBible.infoHigh
EthiopiaBeyond this plate.28:19OpenBible.infoHigh
Jordan40:23OpenBible.infoHigh
ShebaBeyond this plate.6:19OpenBible.infoHigh
Tema6:19OpenBible.infoHigh
Uz1:1OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 150)
Zaphon26:7OpenBible.infoUncertain (score 359)

Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain.