Ruth 2:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

She said, Let me find favour Or, I find favour, &c. For it is evidently an acknowledgment of the kindness she had already received, and not a petition for a further kindness. Though I be not like, &c. That is, though I have not deserved it, being a person more mean, obscure, and necessitous, than one of thy handmaidens A stranger, and one born of heathen parents, and not of the holy and honourable people of Israel, as they are.

Ruth 2:13

13 Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.