Ruth 1:12
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Return 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,

too old

Genesis 17:17 Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?

1 Timothy 5:9 Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband.

I should have.

Context
Ruth's Loyalty to Naomi
11But she answered them: Return, my daughters: why come ye with me? have I any more sons in my womb, that you may hope for husbands of me? 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,13If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man's estate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my daughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress, and the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.…
Cross References
Genesis 38:11
Wherefore Juda said to Thamar his daughter-in-law: Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Sela my son grow up: for he was afraid lest he also might die, as his brethren did. She went her way, and dwelt in her father's house.

Ruth 1:11
But she answered them: Return, my daughters: why come ye with me? have I any more sons in my womb, that you may hope for husbands of me?

Ruth 1:13
If you would wait till they were grown up, and come to man's estate, you would be old women before you marry. Do not so, my daughters, I beseech you: for I am grieved the more for your distress, and the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.

Lexicon
Return home,
שֹׁ֤בְנָה (šō·ḇə·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

my daughters.
בְנֹתַי֙ (ḇə·nō·ṯay)
Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1323: A daughter

Go on,
לֵ֔כְןָ (lê·ḵə·nā)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk

for
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

I am too old
זָקַ֖נְתִּי (zā·qan·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2204: To be or become old

to have
מִהְי֣וֹת (mih·yō·wṯ)
Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

another husband.
לְאִ֑ישׁ (lə·’îš)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

Even if
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

I thought
אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ (’ā·mar·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

there was
יֶשׁ־ (yeš-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3426: Being, substance, existence, is

hope
תִקְוָ֔ה (ṯiq·wāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8615: A cord, expectancy

for me
לִ֣י (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew

to have
הָיִ֤יתִי (hā·yî·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a husband
לְאִ֔ישׁ (lə·’îš)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

tonight
הַלַּ֙יְלָה֙ (hal·lay·lāh)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3915: A twist, night, adversity

and
גַּ֣ם (gam)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

to bear
יָלַ֥דְתִּי (yā·laḏ·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

sons,
בָנִֽים׃ (ḇā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son


Additional Translations
Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,Turn 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;

Turn 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;

Turn now, my daughters, for I am too old to be married: for I said, Suppose I were married, and should bear sons;

Return, 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,

Turn 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;

Turn 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;

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;

Turn 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:
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