< Ruth 2 >

1 And Noemin had [a friend] an acquaintance of her husband, and the man [was] a mighty man of the kindred of Elimelech, and his name [was] Booz.
拿俄米的丈夫以利米勒的亲族中,有一个人名叫波阿斯,是个大财主。
2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Noemin, Let me go now to the field, and I will glean among the ears behind the man with whoever I shall find favor: and she said to her, Go, daughter.
摩押女子路得对拿俄米说:“容我往田间去,我蒙谁的恩,就在谁的身后拾取麦穗。”拿俄米说:“女儿啊,你只管去。”
3 And she went; and came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers; and she happened by chance to come on a portion of the land of Booz, of the kindred of Elimelech.
路得就去了,来到田间,在收割的人身后拾取麦穗。她恰巧到了以利米勒本族的人波阿斯那块田里。
4 And, behold, Booz came from Bethleem, and said to the reapers, The Lord [be] with you: and they said to him, The Lord bless you.
波阿斯正从伯利恒来,对收割的人说:“愿耶和华与你们同在!”他们回答说:“愿耶和华赐福与你!”
5 And Booz said to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose [is] this damsel?
波阿斯问监管收割的仆人说:“那是谁家的女子?”
6 And his servant who was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel who returned with Noemin out of the land of Moab.
监管收割的仆人回答说:“是那摩押女子,跟随拿俄米从摩押地回来的。
7 And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers: and she came and stood from morning till evening, and rested not [even] a little in the field.
她说:‘请你容我跟着收割的人拾取打捆剩下的麦穗。’她从早晨直到如今,除了在屋子里坐一会儿,常在这里。”
8 And Booz said to Ruth, Hast you not heard, [my] daughter? go not to glean in another field; and depart not you hence, join yourself here with my damsels.
波阿斯对路得说:“女儿啊,听我说,不要往别人田里拾取麦穗,也不要离开这里,要常与我使女们在一处。
9 [Let] your eyes [be] on the field where [my men] shall reap, and you shall go after them: behold, I have charged the young men not to touch you: and when you shall thirst, then you shall go to the vessels, and drink of that which the young men shall have drawn.
我的仆人在那块田收割,你就跟着他们去。我已经吩咐仆人不可欺负你;你若渴了,就可以到器皿那里喝仆人打来的水。”
10 And she fell upon her face, and did reverence to the ground, and said to him, How is it that I have found grace in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, whereas I am a stranger?
路得就俯伏在地叩拜,对他说:“我既是外邦人,怎么蒙你的恩,这样顾恤我呢?”
11 And Booz answered and said to her, It has fully been told me how you have dealt with your mother-in-law after the death of your husband; and how you did leave your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and came to a people whom you knew not before.
波阿斯回答说:“自从你丈夫死后,凡你向婆婆所行的,并你离开父母和本地,到素不认识的民中,这些事人全都告诉我了。
12 The Lord recompense your work; may a full reward be given you of the Lord God of Israel, to whom you have come to trust under his wings.
愿耶和华照你所行的赏赐你。你来投靠耶和华—以色列 神的翅膀下,愿你满得他的赏赐。”
13 And she said, Let me find grace in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, and behold, I shall be as one of your servants.
路得说:“我主啊,愿在你眼前蒙恩。我虽然不及你的一个使女,你还用慈爱的话安慰我的心。”
14 And Booz said to her, Now [it is] time to eat; come here, and you shall eat of the bread, and you shall dip your morsel in the vinegar: and Ruth sat by the side of the reapers: and Booz handed her meal, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left.
到了吃饭的时候,波阿斯对路得说:“你到这里来吃饼,将饼蘸在醋里。”路得就在收割的人旁边坐下;他们把烘了的穗子递给她。她吃饱了,还有余剩的。
15 And she rose up to glean; and Booz charged his young men, saying, Let her even glean among the sheaves, and reproach her not.
她起来又拾取麦穗,波阿斯吩咐仆人说:“她就是在捆中拾取麦穗,也可以容她,不可羞辱她;
16 And do you by all means carry it for her, and you shall surely let fall for her some of that which is heaped up; and let her eat, and glean, and rebuke her not.
并要从捆里抽出些来,留在地下任她拾取,不可叱吓她。”
17 So she gleaned in the field till evening, and beat out that she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barely.
这样,路得在田间拾取麦穗,直到晚上,将所拾取的打了,约有一伊法大麦。
18 And she took [it] up, and went into the city: and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned, and Ruth brought forth and gave to her the food which she had left from what she had been satisfied with.
她就把所拾取的带进城去给婆婆看,又把她吃饱了所剩的给了婆婆。
19 And her mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today, and where have you wrought? blessed be he that took notice of you. And Ruth told her mother-in-law where she [had] wrought, and said, The name of the man with whom I wrought today [is] Booz.
婆婆问她说:“你今日在哪里拾取麦穗,在哪里做工呢?愿那顾恤你的得福。”路得就告诉婆婆说:“我今日在一个名叫波阿斯的人那里做工。”
20 And Noemin said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed is he of the Lord, because he has not failed in his mercy with the living and with the dead: and Noemin said to her, The man is near akin to us, he is one of our relations.
拿俄米对儿妇说:“愿那人蒙耶和华赐福,因为他不断地恩待活人死人。”拿俄米又说:“那是我们本族的人,是一个至近的亲属。”
21 And Ruth said to her mother-in-law, Yes, he said also to me, Keep close to my damsels, until the men shall have finished all my reaping.
摩押女子路得说:“他对我说:‘你要紧随我的仆人拾取麦穗,直等他们收完了我的庄稼。’”
22 And Noemin said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, [It is] well, daughter, that you went out with his damsels; thus they shall not meet you in another field.
拿俄米对儿妇路得说:“女儿啊,你跟着他的使女出去,不叫人遇见你在别人田间,这才为好。”
23 And Ruth joined herself to the damsels of Booz to glean until they had finished the barley harvest and the wheat harvest.
于是路得与波阿斯的使女常在一处拾取麦穗,直到收完了大麦和小麦。路得仍与婆婆同住。

< Ruth 2 >