And being come into the open road outside the town, he began to take a view of the motives that had brought him away from his home again.

Then he saw that, if he was not a hypocrite like Reuben, no credit could he give himself for what he was doing, and if he was poor who had before been rich, no merit could he make of his poverty.
"Naomi, Naomi, all for her, all for her," he thought.

Naomi was his hope and his salvation.

His faith in God was his love of the child.

He was only bribing God to give her grace.