¹⁹ Your^[a] servant has found favor in your^[b] eyes,^(A) and you^[c] have shown great kindness^(B) to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains;^(C) this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.

⁴ Joseph found favor in his eyes^(A) and became his attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household,^(B) and he entrusted to his care everything he owned.^(C)

² And Ruth the Moabite^(A) said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain^(B) behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.^(C)”

Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

¹⁰ At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground.^(A) She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me^(B)—a foreigner?^(C)”

¹³ “May I continue to find favor in your eyes,^(A) my lord,” she said. “You have put me at ease by speaking kindly to your servant—though I do not have the standing of one of your servants.”

¹⁸ She said, “May your servant find favor in your eyes.^(A)” Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast.^(B)

¹⁵ When the turn came for Esther (the young woman Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail^(A)) to go to the king,^(B) she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor^(C) of everyone who saw her.