Ruth 2:22 (YLT)

Passage

And Naomi saith unto Ruth her daughter-in-law, `Good, my daughter, that thou goest out with his young women, and they come not against thee in another field.'

Nearby Context

Ruth 2:20 And Naomi saith to her daughter-in-law, `Blessed <FI>is<Fi> he of Jehovah who hath not forsaken His kindness with the living and with the dead;' and Naomi saith to her, `The man is a relation of ours; he <FI>is<Fi> of our redeemers.'

Ruth 2:21 And Ruth the Moabitess saith, `Also he surely said unto me, Near the young people whom I have thou dost cleave till they have completed the whole of the harvest which I have.'

Ruth 2:22 And Naomi saith unto Ruth her daughter-in-law, `Good, my daughter, that thou goest out with his young women, and they come not against thee in another field.'

Ruth 2:23 And she cleaveth to the young women of Boaz to glean, till the completion of the barley-harvest, and of the wheat-harvest, and she dwelleth with her mother-in-law.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "naomi", "saith", "ruth", "daughter-in-law", "good", "thou", and "goest". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "naomi" and "saith", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 21's "And Ruth the Moabitess saith Also he..." into verse 23's "And she cleaveth to the young women...", so "naomi" 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 "naomi" and "saith" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.