Teks -- Ruth 2:21 (NET)

2:21 Ruth the Moabite replied, “He even told me, ‘You may go along beside my servants until they have finished gathering all my harvest!’”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Rut 2:21 - Harvest

Both barley - harvest, and wheat - harvest. She tells what kindness Boaz had shewed her; but not, how he had commended her. Humility teaches not only not to praise ourselves, but not to be forward in repeating the praise which others have given us.

JFB: Rut 2:21 - all my harvest

Both barley and wheat harvests. The latter was at the end of May or the beginning of June.

Clarke: Rut 2:21 - Keep fast by my young men

Keep fast by my young men - The word הנערים hannearim should be translated servants, both the male and female being included in it; the latter especially, as we see in Rth 2:22, Rth 2:23.

TSK: Rut 2:21 - Thou shalt // young men

Thou shalt : Rth 2:7, Rth 2:8, Rth 2:22; Son 1:7, Son 1:8

young men : The word hannearim should be translated the servants; both male and female being included in it, the latter especially (see note on Rth 2:8, see note on Rth 2:22, and see note on Rth 2:23).

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Rut 2:21

Both barley and wheat harvest, as is said, Rth 2:23 .

Gill: Rut 2:21 - And Ruth the Moabitess said, he said unto me also // thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest

And Ruth the Moabitess said, he said unto me also,.... Besides the favours he has shown me already, he has given me reason to expect more, for he has given me this strict order:

thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest; both barley harvest and wheat harvest; his will was, that she kept following them, and gleaned after them, as long as both harvests lasted. The Septuagint version is, "with my maidens", and which agrees with Rth 2:8, where the order of Boaz is expressed, and with the instructions of Naomi in the next verse, who so understood it; but if we understand it of young men here, there is no contradiction; for both young men and maidens wrought together in the same field, either in reaping or binding up; so that if she kept fast by the one, she also would do the same by the other.