The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
Job did not leave the stranger to lodge unsheltered in the street, but opened his doors and received the traveler into his home. That welcome was no isolated kindness, but part of his just and compassionate life. To take strangers in stood in that life as mercy put into practical action. Such hospitality was a duty of mercy taught in Scripture. The priest and the Levite knew that duty from Scripture, yet failed to carry it out in life.
Job did not leave the stranger to lodge unsheltered in the street, but opened his doors and received the traveler into his home. That welcome was no isolated kindness, but part of his just and compassionate life. To take strangers in stood in that life as mercy put into practical action. Such hospitality was a duty of mercy taught in Scripture. The priest and the Levite knew that duty from Scripture, yet failed to carry it out in life.