Job 31:32

31:32 But ¹  no stranger had to spend the night outside,

for I opened my doors to the traveler ²  –

Job 39:9

39:9 Is the wild ox willing to be your servant?

Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?

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¹ tn This verse forms another parenthesis. Job stops almost at every point now in the conditional clauses to affirm his purity and integrity.

² tn The word in the MT, אֹרחַ (’orakh, “way”), is a contraction from אֹרֵחַ (’oreakh, “wayfarer”); thus, “traveler.” The same parallelism is found in Jer 14:8. The reading here “on/to the road” is meaningless otherwise.