Job 31:32
The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.
Darby Translation
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 said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?
33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
Cross References
Judges 19:15And they turned aside thither, to go in, to lodge in Gibeah. And he went in, and sat down in the open place of the city; and there was no one that received him into his house to pass the night.
Job 29:16I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring to thy house the needy wanderers; when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Matthew 25:40And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.
Romans 12:13distributing to the necessities of the saints; given to hospitality.
Hebrews 13:2Be not forgetful of hospitality; for by it some have unawares entertained angels.
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 →