Stay here tonight, and in the morning I will talk to him. If he is willing to redeem you, very well. Let him marry you. But if he is not willing, then as surely as the Lord lives, I will redeem you myself! Now lie down here until morning.”
That the Lord lives is the most certain thing in the universe. Boaz describes his determination to do the right thing in terms of this certainty. He does this for the sake of emphasis sake, I suppose, but also because of his strong desire to conduct his affairs in a way pleasing to the Lord.
