Ruth 4:15

New English Translation

He will encourage you and provide for you when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given him birth. She is better to you than seven sons!”

Cross References

Genesis 45:11

I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor – you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.”’

Genesis 47:12

Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.

Psalm 55:22

Throw your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the godly to be upended.

Proverbs 18:24

A person who has friends may be harmed by them, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Isaiah 46:4

Even when you are old, I will take care of you, even when you have gray hair, I will carry you. I made you and I will support you; I will carry you and rescue you.

Ruth 4:16

Naomi took the child and placed him on her lap; she became his caregiver.

1 Samuel 1:8

Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.