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Job 31:32 KJV
Job · chapter 31 · verse 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 context
30Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
31If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
32The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
34Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- strangergêrproperly, a guestH1616 →
- streetchûwtsproperly, separate by awallH2351 →
- openedpâthachto open wideH6605 →
- lodgelûwnto stopH3885 →
- doorsdelethsomething swingingH1817 →
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Four articles more of Job's protestation we have in these verses, which, as all the rest, not only assure us what he was and did, but teach us what we should be and do: - I. He protests that he never set his heart upon the wealth of this world, nor took the things of it for his portions and happiness. He had gold;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 24-32