Job 31:32
(the sojourner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
In Context
31if the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one who has not been filled with his food?
33if like Adam I have covered my transgressions by hiding my iniquity in my bosom
Cross References
Judges 19:15And they turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah. And he went in, and sat down in the street of the city, for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge.
Job 29:16I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know.
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?
Matthew 25:40And having answered, the King will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it to one of these my brothers, the least, ye did it to me.
Romans 12:13sharing for the needs of the sanctified, pursuing love for strangers.
Hebrews 13:2Do not forget love for strangers, for by this some lodged heavenly agents, unaware.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:25-33
Job's Abhorrence of Idolatry. ( b. c. 1520.) 24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much; 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: 28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him… Read the whole commentary →