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Ruth 3:10

And he said: Blessed art thou of the Lord, my daughter, and thy latter kindness has surpassed the former: because thou hast not followed young men either poor or rich.

Challoner: Thy latter kindnessto thy husband deceased in seeking to keep up his name and family by marrying his relation according to the law, and not following after young men. For Booz, it seems, was then in years.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Et ille : Benedicta, inquit, es a Domino, filia, et priorem misericordiam posteriore superasti : quia non est secuta juvenes, pauperes sive divites.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ εἶπεν Βόος Εὐλογημένη σὺ τῷ κυρίῳ θεῷ, θύγατερ, ὅτι ἠγάθυνας τὸ ἔλεός σου τὸ ἔσχατον ὑπὲρ τὸ πρῶτον τὸ μὴ πορευθῆναι ὀπίσω νεανιῶν, εἴτοι πτωχὸς εἴτοι πλούσιος.
Hebrew (WLC): וַיֹּ֗אמֶר בְּרוּכָ֨ה אַ֤תְּ לַֽיהוָה֙ בִּתִּ֔י הֵיטַ֛בְתְּ חַסְדֵּ֥ךְ הָאַחֲר֖וֹן מִן הָרִאשׁ֑וֹן לְבִלְתִּי לֶ֗כֶת אַחֲרֵי֙ הַבַּ֣חוּרִ֔ים אִם דַּ֖ל וְאִם עָשִֽׁיר

Haydock's commentary

Thy latter kindness; viz., to thy husband deceased, in seeking to keep up his name and family, by marrying his relation according to the law, and not following after young men: for Booz, it seems, was then in years. (Challoner) Salien supposes about seventy years old. (Haydock)

The affection which Ruth had all along displayed towards her husband, deserved applause. (Calmet)

Much more did her present endeavours to comply with God’s law. (Worthington)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.