Job 33:23

it is very probable that he was one of Job's relations that was come to visit him in his melancholy circumstances, had been a bystander, and an hearer of the whole dispute between Job and his friends, with the management of which he was not a little displeased; he is described by his descent, when Job's other three friends are not, because he was a young man, and not known as they were: and this serves to show the truth of this history, that it is not a mere apologue, or moral fable, but a real fact; though who his father Barachel the Buzite was cannot easily be determined; it is probable he was a descendant of Buz, the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother, Ge 22:20; of this opinion are Aben Ezra and Ben Gersom; unless it can be thought he was so called from the city Buz, of which he might be an inhabitant, mentioned along with Dedan and Tema, Jer 25:23, places in Edom or Idumea, where or near to which Job lived:of the kindred of Ram; according to the Targum, of the kindred of Abraham, in which it is followed by other Jewish writers ; and some even take him to be Isaac, the son of Abraham ; Aben Ezra thinks he is the same with Ram the father of Amminadab, Ru 4:19; but he is abundantly too late for this man to be of his kindred; others take him to be the same with Aram, the son of Kemuel, a brother of Buz, Ge 22:21; these names being used for one another, either by adding or removing a letter; see Mt 1:3; compared with Ru 4:19;against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God; not that he made himself more just than God, he could never think or say so, see