Quoting%20commentary for Bava Batra 29:15

יתיב ההוא מרבנן קמיה דר' שמואל בר נחמני ויתיב וקאמר איוב לא היה ולא נברא אלא משל היה אמר ליה עליך אמר קרא איש היה בארץ עוץ איוב שמו

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,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Job 1, 1. ');">²⁶</span> and it is written elsewhere [in connection with the spies], Whether there be wood [ez] therein.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. XIII, 20. ');">²⁷</span>

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