Rut 2:7, 1Sa 2:36, 2Ki 4:1-2, Isa 66:2, Mat 5:3, Jam 1:9-11 | ESV | STEP | She said , Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers . So she came , and she has continued from early morning until now , except for a short rest .

Ruth 2:7

7 She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.’ So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest.” ^{▼▼Compare Septuagint, Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain}

1 Samuel 2:36

36 And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, “Please put me in one of the priests’ places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’”

2 Kings 4:1-2

Elisha and the Widow’s Oil

1 Now the wife of one of the ^bsons of the prophets cried to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, ^cbut the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.” 2 And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”

Isaiah 66:2

2 ^dAll these things my hand has made,
and so all these things came to be,

declares the Lord.
^eBut this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and trembles at my word.

Matthew 5:3

3 ^f“Blessed are ^gthe poor in spirit, for ^htheirs is the kingdom of heaven.

James 1:9-11

9 Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, 10 and ⁱthe rich in his humiliation, because ^jlike a flower of the grass ^{▼▼Or a wild flower} he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and ^lwithers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.