Job Chapter 31 verse 32 Holy Bible
(The sojourner hath not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveller);
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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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The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.
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The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
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The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveler.
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(The foreigner has not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the traveler);
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In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 32. - The stranger did not lodge in the street; i.e. "I did not suffer any stranger who came under my notice to lodge in the street, but, like Abraham (Genesis 18:2-8), went out to him, and invited him in, to partake of my hospitality." This is still the practice of Arab sheikhs in Syria, Palestine, and the adjacent countries (see Dr. Cunningham Geikie's 'Holy Land and the Bible,' vol. 1. p. 283). But I opened my doors to the traveller; literally, to the way; i.e. "my house gave on the street, and I kept my house door open." Compare the Mishna, "Let thy house be open to the street" ('Pirke Aboth,' ยง 5).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(32) I opened my doors to the traveller.--The manners of Genesis 19:2-3, Judges 19:20-21, if not the incidents there recorded, are here implied. "The traveller" is literally the road or way: i.e., the wayfarer.
