SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:11
Y respondiendo Booz, le dijo: De cierto me ha sido declarado todo lo que has hecho con tu suegra después de la muerte de tu marido; que dejando a tu padre y a tu madre, y la tierra de tu natural has venido a pueblo que no conociste llegando hace tres días.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. And Boaz answered and said unto her , etc.] Alshech thinks, that he lift up his voice that all that stood by might hear: it hath fully been showed me ; either by Naomi, or rather by some persons of Boaz’s Naomi and reacquaintance, that had conversed with Naomi and related to Boaz what passed between them, by which he was fully informed of the following things mentioned by him; though the above writer supposes, that it was showed him by the Holy Ghost: all that thou hast done to thy mother in law since the death of thine husband ; how that, instead of going home to her father and mother, she continued with her; how tenderly she used her; what strong expressions of love she had made unto her; what care she had taken of her, and how she had fed and nourished her, as the Targum, and now was gleaning for her support, as well as her own: and how thou hast left thy father and mother ; in a literal sense, to go along with her mother-in-law, to assist her in her journey, and see her safe to the end of it: and in a figurative sense her idol gods, as in ( Jeremiah 2:27) so the Midrash f37 : and the land of thy nativity ; the land of Moab, where she was born, and where her kindred, relations, and friends lived, dear and engaging to her: and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore ; but by hearsay, and what she learned of them from her husband and mother-inlaw, even the people of Israel; to whom she was come to be a proselyte, and dwell among them, as the Targum.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 4-16 - The pious and kind language between Boaz and his reapers shows tha there were godly persons in Israel. Such language as this is seldo heard in our field; too often, on the contrary, what is immoral an corrupt. A stranger would form a very different opinion of our land from that which Ruth would form of Israel from the converse and conduc of Boaz and his reapers. But true religion will teach a man to behav aright in all states and conditions; it will form kind masters an faithful servants, and cause harmony in families. True religion wil cause mutual love and kindness among persons of different ranks. It ha these effects on Boaz and his men. When he came to them he prayed for them. They did not, as soon as he was out of hearing curse him, as some ill-natured servants that hate their master's eye, but they returne his courtesy. Things are likely to go on well where there is suc good-will as this between masters and servants. They expressed their kindness to each other by praying one for another. Boaz inquire concerning the stranger he saw, and ordered her to be well treated Masters must take care, not only that they do no hurt themselves, but that they suffer not their servants and those under them to do wrong Ruth humbly owned herself unworthy of favours, seeing she was born an brought up a heathen. It well becomes us all to think humbly of ourselves, esteeming others better than ourselves. And let us, in the kindness of Boaz to Ruth, note the kindness of the Lord Jesus Christ to poor sinners.
Original Hebrew
ויען 6030 בעז 1162 ויאמר 559 לה הגד 5046 הגד 5046 לי כל 3605 אשׁר 834 עשׂית 6213 את 854 חמותך 2545 אחרי 310 מות 4194 אישׁך 376 ותעזבי 5800 אביך 1 ואמך 517 וארץ 776 מולדתך 4138 ותלכי 1980 אל 413 עם 5971 אשׁר 834 לא 3808 ידעת 3045 תמול 8543 שׁלשׁום׃ 8032
