Commentary on Job, part 5

Stepanos tells us more about Job's place of origin. He follows the Septuagint, transliterating Greek Ausitis as Awsit, rather than the Hebrew Uz. The connection to Damascus is perhaps derived from Josephus, who claims that the eponym of Job's hometown is the founder of Damascus. Stepanos uses Josephus as a source for his commentary on the Gospels.

“There was a man in the land of Ausitis.”

There is a large country near Hamath, and there is a small village in it named Ausitis, which became the preeminent city of the Arabs, although it is called Damascus in the scriptures. But the place where he resided in his tribulations and where his grave is now is in Arabia.