Was Job a polytheist?

[tonychanyt]

I don't think so. Job 1:

8 The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”

The LORD characterized Job as his blameless servant. If Job was a polytheist, he would not be blameless.

After the disasters, Job 1:

"20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said: 'Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.' 22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing."

Job worshipped the Lord, not idols. There was no mention of any other gods in the book.

Job was around 200 years old when he died (Jb 1:1-3, 42:16). It seems that people started to worship idols soon after the events in the Book of Job.

Terah, the father of Abram, lived 205 years (Genesis 11:32). He was a polytheist.

Abraham lived 175 years (Genesis 25:7).

The first explicit mention of other gods appeared in Genesis 31:19, where Rachel stole her father Laban's household gods (teraphim). Jacob died at the age of 147 years (Genesis 47:28). By this time, polytheism was everywhere.

Moses lived 120 years (De 34:7). God had chosen the people of Israel to worship him exclusively (monotheism).