And Boaz saith to her, `At meal-time come nigh hither, and thou hast eaten of the bread, and dipped thy morsel in the vinegar.' And she sitteth at the side of the reapers, and he reacheth to her roasted corn, and she eateth, and is satisfied, and leaveth.
Ruth 2:12 Jehovah doth recompense thy work, and thy reward is complete from Jehovah, God of Israel, under whose wings thou hast come to take refuge.'
Ruth 2:13 And she saith, `Let me find grace in thine eyes, my lord, because thou hast comforted me, and because thou hast spoken unto the heart of thy maid-servant, and I--I am not as one of thy maid-servants.'
Ruth 2:14 And Boaz saith to her, `At meal-time come nigh hither, and thou hast eaten of the bread, and dipped thy morsel in the vinegar.' And she sitteth at the side of the reapers, and he reacheth to her roasted corn, and she eateth, and is satisfied, and leaveth.
Ruth 2:15 And she riseth to glean, and Boaz chargeth his young men, saying, `Even between the sheaves she doth glean, and ye do not cause her to blush;
Ruth 2:16 and also ye do surely cast to her of the handfuls--and have left, and she hath gleaned, and ye do not push against her.'
The verse centers on "boaz", "saith", "meal-time", "come", "nigh", "hither", "thou", and "hast". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "boaz" and "saith", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.
The nearby context moves from verse 13's "And she saith Let me find grace..." into verse 15's "And she riseth to glean and Boaz...", so "boaz" and "saith" belong inside that flow. In Ruth context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.
A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "boaz" and "saith" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.