Key Verse Spotlight
Job 31:32 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“The stranger did not lodge in the street: {but} I opened my doors to the traveller. {traveller: or, way}”
Job 31:32
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul. {mouth: Heb. palate}
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
The stranger did not lodge in the street: {but} I opened my doors to the traveller. {traveller: or, way}
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom: {as Adam: or, after the manner of men}
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, {and} went not out of the door?
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