Job 31:32
In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.
Young's Literal Translation
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 ye, O men of my tent, 'O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'
33If I have covered as Adam my transgressions, To hide in my bosom mine iniquity,
Cross References
Judges 19:15and they turn aside there to go in to lodge in Gibeah, and he goeth in and sitteth in a broad place of the city, and there is no man gathering them into the house to lodge.
Job 29:16A father I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.
Isaiah 58:7Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?
Matthew 25:40'And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did [it] to one of these my brethren — the least — to me ye did [it].
Romans 12:13to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.
Hebrews 13:2of the hospitality be not forgetful, for through this unawares certain did entertain messengers;
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 →