Ruth רוּת
c. 10th–4th century BC · Moab · Bethlehem · Naomi, who has lost her husband and both her sons and is going home to Bethlehem, tells her Moabite daughters-in-law to go back to their mothers' houses. This is Ruth's answer.
And Ruth said: “Do not press me to leave you, to turn back from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and more, if anything but death parts me from you.”
וַתֹּאמֶר רוּת אַל־תִּפְגְּעִי־בִי לְעָזְבֵךְ לָשׁוּב מֵאַחֲרָיִךְ כִּי אֶל־אֲשֶׁר תֵּלְכִי אֵלֵךְ וּבַאֲשֶׁר תָּלִינִי אָלִין עַמֵּךְ עַמִּי וֵאלֹהַיִךְ אֱלֹהָי בַּאֲשֶׁר תָּמוּתִי אָמוּת וְשָׁם אֶקָּבֵר כֹּה יַעֲשֶׂה יְהוָה לִי וְכֹה יֹסִיף כִּי הַמָּוֶת יַפְרִיד בֵּינִי וּבֵינֵךְ
Ruth 1:16–17
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Koheleth קֹהֶלֶת
c. 5th–3rd century BC · Jerusalem
Two are better than one, for they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion; but woe to the one who is alone when he falls and has no second to lift him up.
טוֹבִים הַשְּׁנַיִם מִן־הָאֶחָד אֲשֶׁר יֵשׁ־לָהֶם שָׂכָר טוֹב בַּעֲמָלָם כִּי אִם־יִפֹּלוּ הָאֶחָד יָקִים אֶת־חֲבֵרוֹ וְאִילוֹ הָאֶחָד שֶׁיִּפּוֹל וְאֵין שֵׁנִי לַהֲקִימוֹ
Ecclesiastes 4:9–10
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