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Verse Job 31:32. _THE STRANGER DID NOT LODGE IN THE STREET_] My
kindness did not extend merely to my family, domestics, and friends;
the _stranger _- he who was to me perfectly unknown, and the
_trave...
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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.
BUT I...
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CHAPTER 31
_ 1. My chastity and righteousness (Job 31:1)_
2. My philanthropy (Job 31:13)
3. My integrity and hospitality (Job 31:24)
4. Let God and man disprove me ...
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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 or e...
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e.
He lived openly and would not hesitate to have the Almighty publish
his record. (Job 31:29-40)
TEXT 31:29-40
29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me,
Or lifted up myself w...
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_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 kind (2 Samu...
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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, mod...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 31
JOB FINISHES HIS LAST SP...
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Like Job, we should be kind to strangers. We may invite people to our
homes. We may provide a meal. The Bible says that sometimes people
have invited angels (God’s servants from heaven) to stay with t...
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I OPENED MY DOORS TO THE TRAVELLER. — The manners of Genesis 19:2;
Judges 19:20, if not the incidents there recorded, are here implied.
“The traveller” is literally _the road_ or _way: i.e.,_ the
wayf...
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בַּ֭ † חוּץ לֹא ־יָלִ֣ין גֵּ֑ר
דְּ֝לָתַ֗י...
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XXIV.
AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING
Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1
Job SPEAKS
FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a
pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the y...
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THE CLEAN LIFE
Job 31:1
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 iniquity...
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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...
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(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 heino...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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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 God a...
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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 stomac...
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_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 his...
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JOB RECOUNTS HIS BLAMELESS CONDUCT...
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The stranger did not lodge in the street, for want of hospitality on
Job's part, BUT I OPENED MY DOORS TO THE TRAVELER, so that everyone
who passed by was made welcome, according to Oriental custom....
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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...
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TO THE TRAVELLER:
Or, to the way...
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24-32 Job protests, 1. That he never set his heart upon the wealth of
this world. How few prosperous professors can appeal to the Lord, that
they have not rejoiced because their gains were great! Thr...
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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 provided f...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He insists on his integrity.
CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends.
CONCLUSION: An upright heart does not dread a scrutiny. A good man is
willing to know the worst of himse...
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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, a...
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_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 MORAL...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 31:31 WHO IS THERE THAT HAS NOT BEEN FILLED WITH HIS
MEAT? Job’s household was always well fed. THE SOJOURNER HAS NOT
LODGED IN THE STREET. Lodging was of critical importance to protec...
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_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 _private...
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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 insinuat...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Job, chapter 31.
Job has pretty well talked down all of his friends. Bildad has had his
last word and Job is still responding, and has been responding,
actua...
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1 Peter 4:9; 1 Timothy 5:10; Genesis 19:2; Genesis 19:3; Hebrews 13:2;...