< 路得記 2 >
1 拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒的親族中,有一個人名叫波阿斯,是個大財主。
And Naomi had a relation of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
2 摩押女子路得對拿俄米說:「容我往田間去,我蒙誰的恩,就在誰的身後拾取麥穗。」拿俄米說:「女兒啊,你只管去。」
And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me, I pray, go to the field and glean among the ears of corn after [him] in whose sight I shall find favour. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.
3 路得就去了,來到田間,在收割的人身後拾取麥穗。她恰巧到了以利米勒本族的人波阿斯那塊田裏。
And she went; and she came and gleaned in the fields after the reapers; and she chanced to light on an allotment of Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
4 波阿斯正從伯利恆來,對收割的人說:「願耶和華與你們同在!」他們回答說:「願耶和華賜福與你!」
And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem; and he said to the reapers, Jehovah be with you! And they said to him, Jehovah bless thee!
5 波阿斯問監管收割的僕人說:「那是誰家的女子?」
And Boaz said to his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose maiden is this?
6 監管收割的僕人回答說:「是那摩押女子,跟隨拿俄米從摩押地回來的。
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish maiden who came back with Naomi out of the fields of Moab;
7 她說:『請你容我跟着收割的人拾取打捆剩下的麥穗。』她從早晨直到如今,除了在屋子裏坐一會兒,常在這裏。」
and she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers. And she came, and has continued from the morning until now: her sitting in the house has been little as yet.
8 波阿斯對路得說:「女兒啊,聽我說,不要往別人田裏拾取麥穗,也不要離開這裏,要常與我使女們在一處。
And Boaz said to Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from here, but keep here with my maidens.
9 我的僕人在那塊田收割,你就跟着他們去。我已經吩咐僕人不可欺負你;你若渴了,就可以到器皿那裏喝僕人打來的水。」
Let thine eyes be on the field which is being reaped, and go thou after them; have I not charged the young men not to touch thee? And when thou art athirst, go to the vessels and drink of what the young men draw.
10 路得就俯伏在地叩拜,對他說:「我既是外邦人,怎麼蒙你的恩,這樣顧恤我呢?」
Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why have I found favour in thine eyes, that thou shouldest regard me, seeing I am a foreigner?
11 波阿斯回答說:「自從你丈夫死後,凡你向婆婆所行的,並你離開父母和本地,到素不認識的民中,這些事人全都告訴我了。
And Boaz answered and said to her, It has fully been shewn me, all that thou hast done to thy mother-in-law since the death of thy husband; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come to a people that thou hast not known heretofore.
12 願耶和華照你所行的賞賜你。你來投靠耶和華-以色列上帝的翅膀下,願你滿得他的賞賜。」
Jehovah recompense thy work, and let thy reward be full from Jehovah the God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to take refuge.
13 路得說:「我主啊,願在你眼前蒙恩。我雖然不及你的一個使女,你還用慈愛的話安慰我的心。」
And she said, Let me find favour in thine eyes, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken kindly to thy handmaid, though I am not like one of thy handmaidens.
14 到了吃飯的時候,波阿斯對路得說:「你到這裏來吃餅,將餅蘸在醋裏。」路得就在收割的人旁邊坐下;他們把烘了的穗子遞給她。她吃飽了,還有餘剩的。
And Boaz said to her at mealtime, Come hither and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers; and he reached her parched corn, and she ate and was sufficed, and reserved [some].
15 她起來又拾取麥穗,波阿斯吩咐僕人說:「她就是在捆中拾取麥穗,也可以容她,不可羞辱她;
And when she rose up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and ye shall not reproach her.
16 並要從捆裏抽出些來,留在地下任她拾取,不可叱嚇她。」
And ye shall also sometimes draw out for her [some ears] out of the handfuls, and leave them that she may glean, and rebuke her not.
17 這樣,路得在田間拾取麥穗,直到晚上,將所拾取的打了,約有一伊法大麥。
And she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out what she had gleaned; and it was about an ephah of barley.
18 她就把所拾取的帶進城去給婆婆看,又把她吃飽了所剩的給了婆婆。
And she took [it] up, and came into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned; and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had reserved after she was sufficed.
19 婆婆問她說:「你今日在哪裏拾取麥穗,在哪裏做工呢?願那顧恤你的得福。」路得就告訴婆婆說:「我今日在一個名叫波阿斯的人那裏做工。」
And her mother-in-law said to her, Where hast thou gleaned to-day? and where hast thou wrought? Blessed be he that did regard thee! And she told her mother-in-law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to-day is Boaz.
20 拿俄米對兒婦說:「願那人蒙耶和華賜福,因為他不斷地恩待活人死人。」拿俄米又說:「那是我們本族的人,是一個至近的親屬。」
And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Jehovah, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead! And Naomi said to her, The man is near of kin to us, one of those who have the right of our redemption.
21 摩押女子路得說:「他對我說:『你要緊隨我的僕人拾取麥穗,直等他們收完了我的莊稼。』」
And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said to me also, Thou shalt keep with my young men until they have ended all my harvest.
22 拿俄米對兒婦路得說:「女兒啊,你跟着他的使女出去,不叫人遇見你在別人田間,這才為好。」
And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.
23 於是路得與波阿斯的使女常在一處拾取麥穗,直到收完了大麥和小麥。路得仍與婆婆同住。
So she kept with the maidens of Boaz to glean, until the end of the barley-harvest and of the wheat-harvest. And she dwelt with her mother-in-law.