Type:		Book, Chapter
Book Title:		Babylonian Talmud
Title:		Baba Bathra 15
Editor(s):		Adsole, A.
Date:		500
Abstract:		You say that Moses wrote his book and the section of Balaam and Job. This supports the opinion of R. Joshua b. Levi b. Lahma who said that Job was contemporary with Moses — [The proof is that] it is written here [in connection with Job], O that my words were now [efo] written, and it is written elsewhere [in connection with Moses], For wherein now [efo] shall it be known. But on that ground I might say that he was contemporary with Isaac, in connection with whom it is written, Who now [efo] is he that took venison? Or I might say that he was contemporary with Jacob, in connection with whom it is written, If so now [efo] do this? or with Joseph, in connection with whom it is written, Where [efo] they are pasturing? — This cannot be maintained; [The proof that Job was contemporary with Moses is that] it is written [in continuation of the above words of Job], Would that they were inscribed in a book, and it is Moses who is called 'inscriber', as it is written, And he chose the first part for himself, for there was the lawgiver's [mehokek, lit. 'inscriber's'] portion reserved. Raba said that Job was in the time of the spies. [The proof is that] it is written here [in connection with Job], There was a man in the land of Uz, Job was his name, and it is written elsewhere [in connection with the spies], Whether there be wood [ez] therein. Where is the parallel? In one place it is Uz, in the other EZ? — What Moses said to Israel was this: [See] if that man is there whose years are as the years of a tree and who shelters his generation like a tree.
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