Ruth 1:21

New International Version

I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? The Lord has afflicted me; the Almighty has brought misfortune upon me.”

Cross References

Job 1:21

and said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.”

Job 10:17

You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.

Job 13:26

For you write down bitter things against me and make me reap the sins of my youth.

Job 16:8

You have shriveled me up—and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

Job 30:11

Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.

Malachi 3:5

“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.

Ruth 1:13

would you wait until they grew up? Would you remain unmarried for them? No, my daughters. It is more bitter for me than for you, because the Lord’s hand has turned against me!”