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Photograph is printed in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Job, vi:1.)--Wetzstein, Oliphant thinks,
clearly shows that the land of Uz, mentioned in Jeremiah, xxv:20, 'And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land
of Uz,' cannot refer to Edom, but must have reference to a region near Damascus. While Josephus, in his Antiquities (i:6-4),
states that the Arameans, whom the Greeks called the Syrians, were descended from Aram. Uz, who was a son of Aram settled
Trachonitis and Damascus. The historian, Mugir-ed-din-el-Hambeli, in the chapter on the legends of the prophet, says: 'Job
came from El-Es Uz (?), and the Damascene province of Batanæa, which included Hauran, was his property.' And Dr. Porter, one
of the contributors to this Self-Interpreting Bible, says that he visited a town in the Hauran whose people claimed that Job
was the king of Batanæa. We give as illustrating this a view of the Military Road in Damascus."
A pool of water and a giant tree; a wall and building are in the background
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