This comes after all the catastrophes of the first 2 Chapters. Job had gone through so much pain and grief and the goal, of course, was to get him to ‘curse God to his face’, Job 1:10.

Job may be beginning to show some cracks in his outlook on life. He is feeling the pain of what he thinks is God's abandonment and then the pain of the loss of his support people.

This is the oldest book that we can think was recorded in the scriptures. There is no mention of Abraham or Israel in the book. Lest we think of him to be a fictional character God mentions him ...