Holy Scripture
Job 31:32
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“The stranger did not lodge in the street; but my door was open to the traveller. Whereas, Paul being witness, charity is described as patient and kind, by patience it bears with composure the ill turns of others, by kindness it also renders with mercifulness its own good ones. Whence blessed Job at once patiently bore…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
32For the stranger did not lodge without, And my door was opened to everyone that came):
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30Let then mine ear hear my curse, And let me be a byword among my people in my affliction.
31And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh (Whereas I was very kind:
— Job 31:32 —
33Or if too having sinned unintentionally, I hid my sin
34(For I did not stand in awe of a great multitude, so as not to declare boldly before them): And if too I permitted a poor man to go out of my door with an empty bosom