Ruth 3:1

After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be well with thee.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

In Context

2This Booz, with whose maids thou wast joined in the field, is our near kinsman, and behold this night he winnoweth barley in the threshingfloor.

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Cross References

Genesis 40:14Only remember me, when it shall be well with thee, and do me this kindness: to put Pharao in mind to take me out of this prison:

Ruth 1:9May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands which you shall take. And she kissed them. And they lifted up their voice and began to weep,

Jeremiah 22:15Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it was then well with him?

1 Timothy 5:8But if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Matthew Henry on Ruth 3:1

We found it very easy, in the former chapter, to applaud the decency of Ruth's behaviour, and to show what good use we may make of the account given us of it; but in this chapter we shall have much ado to vindicate it from the imputation of indecency, and to save it from having an ill use made of it; but the goodness of those times was such as saved what is recorded here from being ill done, and yet the badness of these times is such as that it will not justify any now in doing the like. Here is, I. The directions… Read the whole commentary →

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