Job 31:32
The stranger did not lodge in the street; my doors I opened to the roadside.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?'
33If after the manner of men I covered my transgressions, 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 him down in the broad place 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 the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
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 →