I have also acquired Ruth the Moabitess, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, to perpetuate the deceased man’s name on his property, so that his name will not disappear among his relatives or from the gate of his hometown. You are witnesses today.”

Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. He slept with her, and the Lord granted conception to her, and she gave birth to a son.

or “Deliver me from the enemy’s hand” or “Redeem me from the hand of the ruthless”?

A wicked person writhes in pain all his days, throughout the number of years reserved for the ruthless.

This is a wicked man’s lot from God, the inheritance the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

God, arrogant people have attacked me; a gang of ruthless men intends to kill me. They do not let you guide them.

Your many foes will be like fine dust, and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,

For the ruthless one will vanish, the scorner will disappear, and all those who lie in wait with evil intent will be killed—

I will rescue you from the power of evil people and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.

I am about to bring strangers against you, ruthless men from the nations. They will draw their swords against your magnificent wisdom and will pierce your splendor.

He along with his people, ruthless men from the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.

Foreigners, ruthless men from the nations, cut it down and left it lying. Its limbs fell on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. All the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

I will make your hordes fall by the swords of warriors, all of them ruthless men from the nations. They will ravage Egypt’s pride, and all its hordes will be destroyed.

Near the end of their kingdoms, when the rebels have reached the full measure of their sin, a ruthless king, skilled in intrigue, will come to the throne.

Salmon fathered Boaz by Rahab, Boaz fathered Obed by Ruth, Obed fathered Jesse,