Some scholars hold that Uz is a fictional place to serve the story of Job, rather than a physical land. Robert Alter, "The Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes: a Translation with Commentary", 2010 The word Uz in Hebrew means "counsel" or "advice", which here suggests that this story takes place in the "Land of Counsel". This fits the story, as the remainder of the book is a story about a man named Job who wrestles with his suffering, and is counseled by several men, and ultimately God. A similar conjecture is that if Uz was a physical place, it may have been chosen as the setting for the story due to the meaning of its name.
