Job Is Introduced as Upright and Prosperous

Uz is named, then integrity is named before any test

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil. He has seven sons and three daughters. His substance is seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

The narrator does not wait for later speeches to decide Job's character. Blameless here means integrity of walk, not a claim that he has never sinned. Uz cannot be pinned to a modern map, and the east-of-Israel coloring does not date the book or prove every scene as a recoverable biography.

The children and the wealth are both real, and they are not the same kind of good

Ten children are persons in a household, not a score. Livestock and servants measure status in this world. The opening will not let later counselors treat prosperity as the proof of righteousness, because righteousness is already declared before the herds are counted.