Job 31 · Verse 32

Job 31:32

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
Job 31:32, King James Version

Job 31:32 in other translations

BSBbut no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—
WEB(the foreigner has not camped in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);
ASV(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);
YLTIn the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.
DARBYThe stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.
BBEThe traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey;
WebsterThe stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler.

What does Job 31:32 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
32. traveller--literally, "way," that is, wayfarers; so expressed to include all of every kind (2Sa 12:4).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 32 The stranger did not lodge in the street - My kindness did not extend merely to my family, domestics, and friends; the stranger - he who was to me perfectly unknown, and the traveler - he who was on his journey to some other district, found my doors ever open to receive them, and were refreshed with my bed and my board.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 31:24-32

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…

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Job 31:32 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בַּ֭חוּץBa.chutzin the streetH2351
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
יָלִ֣יןya.Linhe passed [the] nightH3885
גֵּ֑רGera sojournerH1616
דְּ֝לָתַ֗יde.la.Taidoors myH1817
לָאֹ֥רַחla.'O.rachto the pathH734
אֶפְתָּֽח\׃'ef.TachI openedH6605

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 31:32

  • Hebrews 13:2

    Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

  • Genesis 19:2-3

    And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

  • Judges 19:20-21

    And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street. So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

  • Romans 12:13

    Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

  • Matthew 25:35

    For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

  • Isaiah 58:7

    Is 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?

  • 1 Peter 4:9

    Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

  • 1 Timothy 5:10

    Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

  • Matthew 25:40

    And 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.

  • Job 31:17-18

    Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof; (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)

  • Matthew 25:44-45

    Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

  • Judges 19:15

    And 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The stranger.
17,18; Ge 19:2,3; Jud 19:15,20,21; Isa 58:7; Mt 25:35,40,44,45
Ro 12:13; 1Ti 5:10; Heb 13:2; 1Pe 4:9
traveller. or, way.

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Context

  • Job 31:31

    If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

  • Job 31:32

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

  • Job 31:33

    If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

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Job 31:32 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
El extranjero no tenía fuera la noche; mis puertas abría al caminante.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
L’étranger ne passait pas la nuit dehors, j’ouvrais ma porte sur le chemin;…
German
Elberfelder 1871
der Fremdling übernachtete nicht draußen, ich öffnete dem Wanderer meine Tür;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
foris non mansit peregrinus: ostium meum viatori patuit.