Job 31:32
A stranger does not lodge in the street, || I open my doors to the traveler.
Literal Standard 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 not, say, O men of my tent: O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.
33If I have covered my transgressions as Adam, || To hide my iniquity in my bosom,
Cross References
Judges 19:15and they turn aside there to go in to lodge in Gibeah, and he goes in and sits in a broad place of the city, and there is no man gathering them into the house to lodge.
Job 29:16I [am] a father to the needy, || And the cause I have not known I search out.
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, || And bring home the wandering poor, || That you see the naked and cover him, || And do not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Matthew 25:40And the King answering, will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you did [it] to one of these My brothers—the least—you did [it] to Me.
Romans 12:13to the necessities of the holy ones communicating; the hospitality pursuing.
Hebrews 13:2Do not be forgetful of hospitality, for through this some entertained messengers 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 →