Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Job 31:32 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 32. 32The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
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Quick Meaning
Job 31:32 closes the thought unit with the words “The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.” Job states “The stranger did not lodge in the street” as one poetic claim in Job Denies Trust in Wealth, Idolatry, Revenge, and Inhospitality.
Gold, sun, and moon are refused as trust and as worship
This verse is one part of that explanation in Job 31:24–31:32. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Job 31:24–31:32
Read Job 31:32 with 31:24–31:32. Read alone, “The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job disclaims confidence in gold, worship of sun or moon, delight in an enemy's ruin, cursing, selfish consumption, and failure to shelter strangers.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Job continues from Job 31:16–31:23: Job says he did not withhold desire, food, clothing, or advocacy and feared divine accountability for using power against the fatherless. Job 31:24–31:32 now develops the next distinct movement: Job disclaims confidence in gold, worship of sun or moon, delight in an enemy's ruin, cursing, selfish consumption, and failure to shelter strangers. Within that relationship, Job 31:32 closes the thought unit through “The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.”
Read Job 31:24–32 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 31:24–31:32 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Denies Trust in Wealth, Idolatry, Revenge, and Inhospitality.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 24. 24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
Verse 25. 25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
Verse 26. 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
Verse 27. 27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
Verse 28. 28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
Verse 29. 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
Verse 30. 30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
Verse 31. 31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
Verse 32. 32 The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
What Remains True
Job disclaims confidence in gold, worship of sun or moon, delight in an enemy's ruin, cursing, selfish consumption, and failure to shelter strangers. Job's testimony and protest deserve a full hearing without making any isolated poetic claim the book's exhaustive final word. Job 31:32 carries that bounded truth through “The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.”
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Job 31:24–31:32 — Job Denies Trust in Wealth, Idolatry, Revenge, and InhospitalitySources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 31:24–31:32, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 31:24–31:32
Open the fixed Hebrew Job file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Job
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006; current official PDF
Supports: Verse-level controls for Job's difficult Hebrew, syntax, older KJV language, textual issues, speech boundaries, and alternatives in Job 31:24–31:32.
Exact location: Official NET Job PDF, exact translator, study, and textual notes attached to Job 31:24–31:32
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