Job 31:32
In the street a stranger had not to lodge; my doors I held open to the roadside;
Leeser Tanakh
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, Oh is there one that is not satisfied of his flesh;—
33If I covered up my transgressions like a common man, by hiding in my bosom my iniquity;
Cross References
Judges 19:15And they turned aside thither, to go in to lodge in Gib'ah; and when he went in, he sat down in the street of the city; for there was no man that brought them into his house to lodge.
Job 29:16A father was I to the needy; and the cause of him I knew not I used to investigate.
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to distribute thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the afflicted poor into thy house! when thou seest the naked, that thou clothe him; and that thou hide not thyself from thy 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 →