I went out full
Of my husband and children, as the Targum; of children and
riches, as Aben Ezra and Jarchi; wherefore some Jewish writers
blame her and her husband for going abroad at such a time, and
ascribe it to a covetous disposition, and an unwillingness to
relieve the poor that came to them in their distress, and
therefore got out of the way of them, on account of which they
were punished, so Jarchi on ( Ruth 1:1 ) , see (
Judges 2:15 )
but this is said without any just cause or reason that appears:
and the Lord hath brought me home again empty:
deprived of her husband, children, and substance; she
acknowledges the hand of God in it, and seems not to murmur at
it, but to submit to it quietly, and bear it patiently:
why then call ye me Naomi;
when there is nothing pleasant and agreeable in me, nor in my
circumstances:
seeing the Almighty hath testified against me, and the
Almighty hath
afflicted me?
had bore witness that that was not a name suitable for her; or
that she had sinned, and had not done what was well pleasing in
his sight, as appeared by his afflicting her; she seemed
therefore to be humbled under a sense of sin, and to consider
afflictions as coming from the Lord on account of it, and
submitted to his sovereign will; the affliction she means was the
loss of her husband, children, and substance; see ( Job 10:17 ) ( 16:8 ) .
