Tobit 2

KING JAMES BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Now when I was come home again, and my wife Anna was restored unto me, with my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, in the which I sat down to eat.	1 But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias's house,
2 And when I saw abundance of meat, I said to my son, Go and bring what poor man soever thou shalt find out of our brethren, who is mindful of the Lord; and, lo, I tarry for thee.	2 He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God, to feast with us.
3 But he came again, and said, Father, one of our nation is strangled, and is cast out in the marketplace.	3 And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to the body:
4 Then before I had tasted of any meat, I started up, and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun.	4 And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously.
5 Then I returned, and washed myself, and ate my meat in heaviness,	5 And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,
6 Remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation.	6 Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.
7 Therefore I wept: and after the going down of the sun I went and made a grave, and buried him.	7 So when the sun was down, he went and buried him.
8 But my neighbours mocked me, and said, This man is not yet afraid to be put to death for this matter: who fled away; and yet, lo, he burieth the dead again.	8 Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: Once already commandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and thou didst scarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again bury the dead?
9 The same night also I returned from the burial, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted and my face was uncovered:	9 But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies of them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight buried them.
10 And I knew not that there were sparrows in the wall, and mine eyes being open, the sparrows muted warm dung into mine eyes, and a whiteness came in mine eyes: and I went to the physicians, but they helped me not: moreover Achiacharus did nourish me, until I went into Elymais.	10 Now it happened one day, that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,
11 And my wife Anna did take women's works to do.	11 And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.
12 And when she had sent them home to the owners, they paid her wages, and gave her also besides a kid.	12 Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy Job.
13 And when it was in my house, and began to cry, I said unto her, From whence is this kid? is it not stolen? render it to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat any thing that is stolen.	13 For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him,
14 But she replied upon me, It was given for a gift more than the wages. Howbeit I did not believe her, but bade her render it to the owners: and I was abashed at her. But she replied upon me, Where are thine alms and thy righteous deeds? behold, thou and all thy works are known.	14 But continued immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God all the days of his life.
	15 For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and kinsmen mocked at his life, saying:
	16 Where is thy hope, for which thou gavest alms, and buriedst the dead?
	17 But Tobias rebuked them, saying: Speak not so:
	18 For we are the children of the saints, and look for that life which God will give to those that never change their faith from him.
	19 Now Anna his wife went daily to weaving work, and she brought home what she could get for their living by the labour of her hands.
	20 Whereby it came to pass, that she received a young kid, and brought it home:
	21 And when her husband heard it bleating, he said: Take heed, lest perhaps it be stolen: restore ye it to its owners, for it is not lawful for us either to eat or to touch any thing that cometh by theft.
	22 At these words his wife being angry answered: It is evident thy hope is come to nothing, and thy alms now appear.
	23 And with these, and other such like words she upbraided him.