(the sojourner has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the traveler),
Four articles more of Job's protestation we have in these verses, which, as all the rest, not only assure us what he was and did, but teach us what we should be and do: - I. He protests that he never set his heart upon the wealth of this world, nor took the things of it for his portions and happiness. He had gold; he had fine gold.
Commenting on Job 31:24-32
Did I fear a great multitude?.... No, they did not deter him from confessing his sin in the most public manner, when sensible or convicted of it, and when such a public acknowledgment was necessary: or did the contempt of families terrify me?
traveller--literally, "way," that is, wayfarers; so expressed to include all of every kind (Sa2 12:4).