Job 31:32

For the stranger did not lodge without, 1 And my door was opened to everyone that came): 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

In Context

31And if too my handmaids have often said, 1 Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh 1 (Whereas I was very kind: 1

33Or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin 1

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Cross References

Judges 19:15And they turned aside thence to go in to lodge in Gibeah; and they went in, and sat down in the street of the city, and there was no one who conducted them into a house to lodge.

Job 29:16I was the father of the helpless; 1 And I searched out the cause which I knew not. 1

Isaiah 58:7Break thy bread to the hungry, and lead the unsheltered poor to thy house: if thou seest one naked, clothe him, and thou shalt not disregard the relations of thine own seed.

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 →

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