12Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, 'I have hope,' if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;


In Context

9 Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.| Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

10 They said to her, |No, but we will return with you to your people.|

11 Naomi said, |Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

12 Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, 'I have hope,' if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;

13 would you then wait until they were grown? Would you then refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me.|

14 They lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth joined with her.

Ruth 1:12 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Return home, my daughters; I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was still hope for me-even if I had a husband tonight and then gave birth to sons-

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Turn again, my daughters, go [your way;] for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, [if] I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Return again, my daughters, and go your ways: for I am now spent with age, and not fit for wedlock. Although I might conceive this night, and bear children,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband to-night, and should also bear sons;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12Return, my daughters, go; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, should I even have a husband to-night, and should I also bear sons,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have an husband to-night, and should also bear sons;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have a husband also to-night, and should also bear sons;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12Turn back, my daughters, go, for I am too aged to be to a husband; though I had said, There is for me hope, also, I have been to-night to a husband, and also I have borne sons:

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;