Job 31:32
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The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.

The stranger

Job 31:17,18 If I have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof: . . .

Genesis 19:2,3 And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your servant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street. . . .

Judges 19:15,20,21 And they turned into it to lodge there. And when they were come in, they sat in the street of the city, for no man would receive them to lodge. . . .

Isaiah 58:7 Deal thy bread to the hungry, and bring the needy and the harbourless into thy house: when thou shalt see one naked, cover him, and despise not thy own flesh.

Matthew 25:35,40,44,45 For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in: . . .

Romans 12:13 Communicating to the necessities of the saints. Pursuing hospitality.

1 Timothy 5:10 Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work.

Hebrews 13:2 And hospitality do not forget: for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

1 Peter 4:9 Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring,

traveller.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
31If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled? 32The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.33If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.…
Cross References
Matthew 25:35
For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:

Judges 19:17
And the old man lifting up his eyes, saw the man sitting with his bundles in the street of the city, and said to him: Whence comest thou? and whither goest thou?

Job 31:31
If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?

Job 31:33
If as a man I have hid my sin, and have concealed my iniquity in my bosom.

Lexicon
[but] no
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

stranger
גֵּ֑ר (gêr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1616: A guest, a foreigner

had to lodge
יָלִ֣ין (yā·lîn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3885: To stop, to stay permanently, to be obstinate

on the street,
בַּ֭חוּץ (ba·ḥūṣ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2351: Separate by a, wall, outside, outdoors

for my door
דְּ֝לָתַ֗י (də·lā·ṯay)
Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1817: Something swinging, the valve of a, door

has been open
אֶפְתָּֽח׃ (’ep̄·tāḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6605: To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve

to the traveler—
לָאֹ֥רַח (lā·’ō·raḥ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 734: A well-trodden road, a caravan


Additional Translations
but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the travelers.

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

for the stranger did not lodge without, and my door was opened to every one that came:)

The stranger did not lodge without; I opened my doors to the pathway.

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

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

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

In the street doth not lodge a stranger, My doors to the traveller I open.
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