14 Then if you are not satisfied with her, you are to let her go where she wants, but you must not sell her or treat her as merchandise,[a] because you have humiliated her.

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  1. 21:14 Hb obscure

14 If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.(A)

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14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.

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15 When she got up to gather grain, Boaz ordered his young men, “Let her even gather grain among the bundles, and don’t humiliate her.

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15 As she got up to glean, Boaz gave orders to his men, “Let her gather among the sheaves(A) and don’t reprimand her.

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15 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not:

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So they returned to the city quietly that day like troops come in when they are humiliated after fleeing in battle.

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The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are ashamed when they flee from battle.

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And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

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You have humiliated me ten times now,
and you mistreat[a] me without shame.(A)

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  1. 19:3 Hb obscure

Ten times(A) now you have reproached(B) me;
    shamelessly you attack me.

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These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

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Let those who intend to take my life
be disgraced and humiliated;
let those who plan to harm me
be turned back and ashamed.(A)

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May those who seek my life(A)
    be disgraced(B) and put to shame;(C)
may those who plot my ruin
    be turned back(D) in dismay.

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Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

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But you have rejected and humiliated us;
you do not march out with our armies.(A)

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But now you have rejected(A) and humbled us;(B)
    you no longer go out with our armies.(C)

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But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

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23 He remembered us in our humiliation(A)
His faithful love endures forever.

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23 He remembered us(A) in our low estate
His love endures forever.

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23 Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:

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A discerning son keeps the law,
but a companion of gluttons humiliates his father.(A)

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A discerning son heeds instruction,
    but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.(A)

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Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.

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Their nobles send their servants[a] for water.
They go to the cisterns;
they find no water;
their containers return empty.
They are ashamed and humiliated;
they cover their heads.(A)

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  1. 14:3 Lit little ones

The nobles send their servants for water;
    they go to the cisterns
    but find no water.(A)
They return with their jars unfilled;
    dismayed and despairing,
    they cover their heads.(B)

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And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

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