Why had he boasted himself of God's mercy?
What were ears to hear to her that could not understand?
Only a torment, a terror, a plague, a perpetual desolation! When Naomi had heard nothing she had known nothing, and never had her spirit asked and cried in vain.

Now she was dumb for the first time, being no longer deaf.

Miserable man that he was, why had the Lord heard his supplication and why had He received his prayer?
But, repenting of such reproaches, in memory of the joy that Naomi's new gift had given her, he called on God to give her speech as well.
"Give her speech, O Lord!" he cried, "speech that shall lift her above the creatures of the field, speech whereby alone she may ask and know! Give her speech, O God my God, and Thy servant will be satisfied!".