Was Job an oriental man

A:The book itself is, of course, a novel but one that cntains some traditions from long before the Babylonian Exile. The book could not have been written without a wide knowledge of the literary world of the ancient Near East outside Palestine. This fact, together with the unexplained peculiarities of the language of the poetical part of the book, has led some scholars to suppose that the author was either a Jew living outside Palestine or even a non-Jew. So either of these ethnic groups is possible. A:The original of the book of Job is the Ugaritic Epic of Kerit. So I would judge that Job was a Canaanite.

Another Answer:

In The Bible, the Book of Job begins:

Job 1:1New International Version (NIV) Job 1

Prologue1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

Though no precise location has been determined for the land of Uz, many believe it is in Edom which would make Job most likely an Edomite.