Are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
You know I am past the possibility of having any other sons, that might raise a seed to their dead brethren.
Call me not Naomi, call me Mara, &c.
My case is now altered, and so let my name be. I had a name when I was before with you, that sounded of pleasure, but now my present condition calls for a name of bitterness.
And her hap was to light on a part of the field, belonging unto Boaz.
God so disposed of her choice, that she lighted upon a part of the field belonging to Boaz.
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
The sons of Eli were lewd and wicked men, and did not acknowledge and regard the Lord; but in their works denied him.
All that the fleshhook brought up, the priest took for himself.
The priests were not content with those parts of the sacrifice which God had allotted unto them, but took whatsoever the flesh hook brought first up.
Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, &c.
Whereas, by the ordinance of God, the fat was first to be offered and burnt to the Lord, they would not stay the leisure of this due ceremony, but snatched away the flesh before the time.
Who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead.
Who so lovingly continueth a kind remembrance of his dead kinsman, my late husband Elimelech, and, for his sake, of me.