¹⁵ He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.

⁸ Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons?

¹¹ There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'

¹² Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

¹⁶ Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;

¹⁷ where you die, will I die, and there will I be buried: Yahweh do so to me, and more also, if anything but death part you and me."

¹⁸ When she saw that she was steadfastly minded to go with her, she left off speaking to her.

¹¹ Boaz answered her, It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.

¹² Yahweh recompense your work, and a full reward be given you of Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you are come to take refuge.

²² Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

²⁴ A man of many companions may be ruined, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

⁴ and even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs will I carry you. I have made, and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.