Job 31:32 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.g ”

Job 31:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The stranger did not lodge in the street - This is designed to illustrate the sentiment in the previous verse, and to express his consciousness that he had showed the most generous hospitality....
Job 31:32 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31. The Oath of Clearing. Job's final protestation of his innocence, and appeal to God to judge him. This chapter, says Duhm, is the high-water mark of the OT ethic, higher than the Decalogue o...
Job 31:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. The stranger did not lodge in the street - My kindness did not extend merely to my family, domestics, and friends;...
Job 31:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller. Traveller, х 'orach ( H734 )] - literally, way - i:e., wayfarers; so expressed to include all of every ki...
Job 31:32 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job Protests the Innocence of his Past Life Job's virtues are those of a great Arab prince, such as are admired still: namely, blameless family life, consideration for the poor and weak, charity,...
Job 31:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Job 31:32 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
Job 31:32 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Clean Life Job 31:1-40 Job had specially guarded against impurity, for its heritage is one of calamity and disaster. He is sure that even if he were weighed by God Himself there would be no...
Job 31:32 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This whole chapter is taken up with Job's solemn oath of innocence. It is ills official answer to the line of argument adopted by his three friends. In the process of his declaration he called on God...
Job 31:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(9) В¶ If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; (10) Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. (11) For this is an hein...
Job 31:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The stranger did not lodge in the street ,.... By a stranger is not meant an unconverted man, that is a stranger to God and godliness, to Christ, and the way of salvation by him, to the Spirit of Go...
Job 31:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The stranger did not lodge in the street: [but] I opened my doors to the traveller. Ver. 32. The stranger did not lodge in the street ] Job was so far from liking and commending those enraged stom...
Job 31:32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If the men of my tabernacle My domestics and familiar friends; said not, O that we had of his flesh! Heath and Schultens read the words, Who can show the man that hath not filled himself with hi...
Job 31:32 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Though Job's misery was complete, he returns in this chapter to the defence of his whole life, which was comparatively more virtuous than that of any other man. God had said this to Satan long before...
Job 31:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Abhorrence of Idolatry. B. C. 1520. 24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said...
Job 31:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The stranger; or, traveller as it follows. Did not lodge in the street; but in my house, according to the laws of hospitality, and the usage of those times, when there were no public inns provi...
Job 31:32 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUED Concludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprightness of his life. Especial reference to his pri...
Job 31:32 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:1 . A maid. The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin; but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and spotless in conversation with women. He abhorred seduction...
Job 31:32 - The Biblical Illustrator

I made a covenant with mine eyes. Guard the senses Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear. ( W. Gurnall. ) Methods of mo...
Job 31:32 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The conclusion of Job's long speech (ch. 26-31.) is now reached. He winds it up by a solemn vindication of himself from all the charges of wicked conduct which have been alleged or in...
Job 31:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Recounts his Blameless Conduct
Job 31:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 4:9 ; 1 Timothy 5:10 ; Genesis 19:2 ; Genesis 19:3 ; Hebrews 13:2 ; Isaiah 58:7 ; Job 31:17 ; Job 31:18 ; Judges 19:15 ; Judges 19:20 ; Judges 19:21 ; Matthew 25:35 ; Matthew 25:...

Job 31:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 31:32 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 31:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 31:32 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 31:32 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 31:32 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 31:32 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 31:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 31:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 31:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 31:32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:32 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 31:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 31:32 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 31:32 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:32 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 31:32 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 31:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 31:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge