³ Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.

¹ Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

⁶ For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, And scourges every son whom he receives."

¹⁰ For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

¹¹ All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.