1Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?
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The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here is, I. Naomi’s care for her daughter’s comfort is without doubt very commendable, and is recorded for imitation. She had no thoughts of marrying herself, Ruth 1:12. But, though she that was old had resolved upon a perpetual widowhood, yet she was far from the thoughts of confining her daughter-in-law to it, that was young. Age must not make itself a standard to youth. On the contrary, she is…
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