Job 1:1

Job 1:1. There was a man in the land of Uz,

Job was a man indeed; a true man, a man of the highest type, for he was a man of God.

Job 1:1. Whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright,--

Job was thoroughly true and sincere, and in this sense he "was perfect and upright,"-

Job 1:1. And one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

He had both sides of a godly character, a love of God and a hatred of sin.