Job

A man in the land of Uz, perfect and upright, one that feared God and eschewed evil; seven sons and three daughters, seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, the greatest of all the men of the east; he rose early and offered burnt offerings for his children. In one day the Sabeans, the fire of God, the Chaldeans and a great wind took his oxen, his sheep, his camels, his servants and his children: 'the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD'; then sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. His three friends sat with him seven days and seven nights and none spake a word, then argued that he must have sinned. He cursed his day, but said, 'I know that my redeemer liveth'. The LORD answered him out of the whirlwind: 'Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?'; Job said, 'now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent'. He prayed for his friends, and the LORD gave him twice as much as he had before; he lived an hundred and forty years after this.

Before written history: Scripture does not date Job. His book knows no Law of Moses and no Israel, and he offers burnt offerings for his own house (Job 1:5), as in the days of the fathers; Ezekiel names him with Noah and Daniel (Ezek 14:14).