Job 31:32

(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);

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WEBBE

(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveller);

BSB

but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler —

KJV

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

ASV

( The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);

BBE

The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey;

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בַּחוּץ ba·chutz in the street H2351 לֹא־ lo'- not H3808 יָלִין ya·lin he passed [the] night H3885 גֵּר ger a sojourner H1616 דְּלָתַי de·la·tai doors my H1817 לָאֹרַח la·'o·rach to the path H734 אֶפְתָּח 'ef·tach I opened H6605

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 24–32

Job protests, 1. That he never set his heart upon the wealth of this world. How few prosperous professors can appeal to the Lord, that they have not rejoiced because their gains were great! Through the determination to be rich, numbers ruin their souls, or pierce themselves with many sorrows. 2. He never was guilty of idolatry. The source of idolatry is in the heart, and it corrupts men, and provokes God to send judgments upon a nation. 3. He neither desired nor delighted in the hurt of the worst enemy he had. If others bear malice to us, that will not justify us in bearing malice to them. 4. He had never been unkind to strangers. Hospitality is a Christian duty, 1Pe 4:9.

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Hospitality

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.