SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:10
Y él dijo: Bendita seas tú del SEÑOR, hija mía; que has hecho mejor tu postrera gracia que la primera, no yendo tras los jóvenes, sean pobres o ricos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Ruth 3:10
Verse 10. In the latter end than at the beginning] It is not easy to find out what Boaz means. Perhaps dsj chesed, which we translate kindness, means piety; as if he had said: Thou hast given great proof of thy piety in this latter instance, when thou hast avoided the young, and those of thy own age, to associate thyself with an elderly man, merely for the purpose of having the Divine injunction fulfilled, viz., that the brother, or next akin, might take the wife of the deceased, and raise a family to him who had died childless, that his name might not become extinct in Israel: this latter act is a greater proof of thy piety and sincerity than any thing that could be inferred from thy becoming a proselyte. Whether poor or rich.] So it appears from this that it was not to mend her condition in life that Ruth endeavoured to get Boaz for her husband, for she might have had a rich young man, but she preferred the building up the house of her deceased husband. See above.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. And he said, blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter , etc.] Instead of calling her an immodest woman for laying herself down at his feet, and a bold impudent woman, she being poor, to ask marriage of him; and instead of being angry with her, and chiding and reproving her for disturbing and frightening him in the night, he blesses her, and pray’s to God to bless her, and prosper her in what she had engaged, and in a kind and loving manner calls her his daughter: for thou hast showed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning ; that is, to her husband’s family; she had shown much love to her husband living and dying, and to her mother-in-law, in leaving her country and kindred to come with her into a strange country, and in labour to support her, as she had done, all which was great kindness; to which the Targum adds, her being proselyted; but the kindness she now showed exceeded all the former, in that she was desirous, according to the law of God, to build up her husband’s family, to marry the next near kinsman, even though an old man, to raise up seed to the name and memory of her husband: inasmuch as thou followedst not the young men, whether poor or rich ; the phrase of following young men is not to be understood of committing fornication with them, as the Targum explains it, but of marriage to them: she shunned their company and conversation, and did not put herself in the way of being caressed and addressed by them, and refused everything of that sort; and did not choose to follow any young man, rich or poor, as a bride follows her husband when married to him. Now Boaz mentions this as an instance of her virtue, and of her great respect to her husband’s family, that a woman of such amiable qualities, virtuous, young, and beautiful, who doubtless might have been married to a young man in her own country, or in Israel, but chose to marry the nearest of kin in her husband’s family, to perpetuate his name and memory; the Jews say f59 Boaz was now eighty years of age, and Ruth forty.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-13 - What in one age or nation would be improper, is not always so in another age or another nation. Being a judge of Israel, Boaz would tel Ruth what she should do; also whether he had the right of redemption and what methods must be taken, and what rites used, in order to accomplishing her marriage with him or another person. The conduct of Boaz calls for the highest praise. He attempted not to take advantag of Ruth; he did not disdain her as a poor, destitute stranger, no suspect her of any ill intentions. He spoke honourably of her as virtuous woman, made her a promise, and as soon as the morning arrived sent her away with a present to her mother-in-law. Boaz made his promise conditional, for there was a kinsman nearer than he, to who the right of redemption belonged.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 ברוכה 1288 את 859 ליהוה 3069 בתי 1323 היטבת 3190 חסדך 2617 האחרון 314 מן 4480 הראשׁון 7223 לבלתי 1115 לכת 1980 אחרי 310 הבחורים 970 אם 518 דל 1800 ואם 518 עשׁיר׃ 6223
