Job 31:32
Good News Translation
I invited travelers into my home and never let them sleep in the streets.

New Revised Standard Version
the stranger has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler—

Contemporary English Version
and travelers were always welcome.

New American Bible
No stranger lodged in the street, for I opened my door to wayfarers—

Douay-Rheims Bible
The stranger did not stay without, my door was open to the traveller.

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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.

Job 31:31
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