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La Bible David Martin

Ruth 4:15

Et qu'il te soit pour te faire revenir l'âme, et pour soutenir ta vieillesse; car ta belle-fille, qui t'aime, a enfanté cet enfant, et elle te vaut mieux que sept fils.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Daughter-In-Law;   Inheritance;   Seven;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Names;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Bethlehem;   Blessing;   Love;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aging;   Daughter-In-Law;   Midwife;   Ruth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Age, Aged, Old Age;   Marriage;   Sabbatical Year;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Age, Old;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 10;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Qu'il console ton âme, et qu'il soit le soutien de ta vieillesse; car ta belle-fille, qui t'aime, a enfanté, et elle te vaut mieux que sept fils.
Darby's French Translation
Et il sera pour toi un restaurateur de ton âme, et un soutien de ta vieillesse! Car ta belle-fille qui t'aime, l'a enfanté, elle qui vaut mieux pour toi que sept fils.
Louis Segond (1910)
Cet enfant restaurera ton âme, et sera le soutien de ta vieillesse; car ta belle-fille, qui t'aime, l'a enfanté, elle qui vaut mieux pour toi que sept fils.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a nourisher: etc. Heb. to nourish thy grey hairs, Genesis 45:11, Genesis 47:12, Psalms 55:22, Isaiah 46:4

for thy: Ruth 1:16-18

better: 1 Samuel 1:8, Proverbs 18:24

Reciprocal: Ruth 4:17 - Obed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life,.... Of the joys, pleasures, and comforts of it, which she had been deprived of through the death of her husband and her two sons, ever since which she had lived a sorrowful life; all the comfort she had was from her daughter-in-law, and now a grandchild being born to her of her would be a means of restoring comfort to her mourning sorrowful spirit, and give her pleasure in those years in which she did not expect any:

and a nourisher of thine old age; that would when grown up feed her, support her, and supply her with all necessaries of life, being heir to a large and rich estate:

for thy daughter in law which loveth thee; Ruth the wife of Boaz, who had shown her love, in leaving her own country and kindred, to come along with her into a strange land, and who had laboured for her support in it, and still retained the same affection for her:

which is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him: either which had been so in the time of her widowhood, as the Targum; or rather which was so now, being the wife of so rich a person, and having now brought forth a son, heir to the estate, who would be more capable of doing for her than if she had seven sons living, having no other than their paternal estate.


 
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