Job 31:32

But ¹  no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler ²  –

Ge 19:2,3; Jud 19:15,20,21; Job 31:17,18; Isa 58:7; Mt 25:35,40,44,45; Ro 12:13; 1Ti 5:10; Heb 13:2; 1Pe 4:9

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.