Job 31:32
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
King James Version
In Context
31If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Cross References
Judges 19:15And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.
Job 29:16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which 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 25:40And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Romans 12:13Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Hebrews 13:2Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
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 →