Job 31:32
The stranger did not lodge in the streete, but I opened my doores vnto him, that went by the way.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
In Context
31Did not the men of my Tabernacle say, Who shall giue vs of his flesh? we can not bee satisfied.
33If I haue hid my sinne, as Adam, concealing mine iniquitie in my bosome,
Cross References
Judges 19:15Then they turned thither to goe in and lodge in Gibeah: and when he came, he sate him downe in a streete of the citie: for there was no man that tooke them into his house to lodging.
Job 29:16I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deale thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poore that wander, vnto thine house? when thou seest the naked, that thou couer him, and hide not thy selfe from thine owne flesh?
Matthew 25:40And the King shall answere, and say vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethre, ye haue done it to me.
Romans 12:13Distributing vnto the necessities of the Saintes: giuing your selues to hospitalitie.
Hebrews 13:2Be not forgetfull to intertaine strangers: for thereby some haue receiued Angels into their houses vnwares.
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 →