Verse 32
Job 31:32
King James Version
32
The stranger did not lodge in the street:
but I opened my doors to the traveller.
Original Language Text
hebrew
בַּ֭/חוּץ לֹא יָלִ֣ין גֵּ֑ר דְּ֝לָתַ֗/י לָ/אֹ֥רַח אֶפְתָּֽח
English Translation
“Outside, a stranger shall not lodge by my door.”
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 31 Context
1
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
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2
For what portion of God (Elohim)
is there from above? and
what
inheritance of the Almighty from on...
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3
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange
punishment
to the workers of iniquity?
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4
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
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5
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
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6
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God (Elohim) may know mine integrity.
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7
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath c...
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8
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
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9
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or
if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
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10
Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
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11
For this
is an heinous crime; yea, it
is an iniquity
to be punished by the judges.
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12
For it
is a fire
that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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13
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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14
What then shall I do when God (Elohim) riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
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15
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
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16
If I have withheld the poor from
their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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17
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
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18
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as
with a father, and I have guided her from my mother...
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19
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
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20
If his loins have not blessed me, and
if he were
not
warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
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21
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
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22
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
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23
For destruction
from God (Elohim)
was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endu...
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24
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold,
Thou art my confidence;
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25
If I rejoiced because my wealth
was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
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26
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking
in
brightness;
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27
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
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28
This also
were an iniquity
to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God (Elohim)
th...
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29
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
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30
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
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31
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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32
The stranger did not lodge in the street:
but I opened my doors to the traveller.
33
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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34
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence,
and w...
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35
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire
is, that the Almighty would answer me, and
that mine ad...
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36
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder,
and bind it
as a crown to me.
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37
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
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38
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
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39
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their li...
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40
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
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