Job 31:32
The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?
33If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.
Cross References
Judges 19:15And they turned into it, to lodge there. And when they were come in, they sat in the street of the city, for no man would receive them to lodge.
Job 29:16I was the father of the poor: and the cause which I knew not, I searched out most diligently.
Isaiah 58:7Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.
Matthew 25:40And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.
Romans 12:13Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing hospitality.
Hebrews 13:2And hospitality do not forget; for by this some, being not aware of it, have 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 →