Livre de Tobit 2

JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Sous le règne d'Asarhaddon, je revins donc chez moi, et ma femme Anna me fut rendue avec mon filsTobie. A notre fête de la Pentecôte (la fête des Semaines), il y eut un bon dîner. Je pris ma place au repas,	1 In truth, after this, when there was a feast day of the Lord, and a good dinner had been prepared in the house of Tobit,
2 on m'apporta la table et on m'apporta plusieurs plats. Alors je dis à mon fils Tobie: "Va chercher, monenfant, parmi nos frères déportés à Ninive, un pauvre qui soit de coeur fidèle, et amène-le pour partager monrepas. J'attends que tu reviennes, mon enfant."	2 he said to his son: “Go, and bring some others who fear God from our tribe to feast with us.”
3 Tobie sortit donc en quête d'un pauvre parmi nos frères, mais il revint et dit: "Père!" Je répondis: "Ehbien, mon enfant?" Il reprit: "Père, il y a quelqu'un de notre peuple qui vient d'être assassiné, il a été étranglé,puis jeté sur la place du marché, et il y est encore."	3 And after he had gone, returning, he reported to him that one of the sons of Israel, with his throat cut, was lying in the street. And immediately, he leapt from his place reclining at table, left behind his dinner, and went forth with fasting to the body.
4 Je ne fis qu'un bond, laissai mon repas intact, enlevai l'homme de la place, et le déposai dans unechambre, en attendant le coucher du soleil pour l'enterrer.	4 And taking it up, he carried it in secret to his house, so that, after the sun had set, he might bury him cautiously.
5 Je rentrai me laver, et je mangeai mon pain dans le chagrin,	5 And after he had hidden the body, he chewed his bread with mourning and fear,
6 avec le souvenir des paroles du prophète Amos sur Béthel: Vos fêtes seront changées en deuil et tousvos cantiques en lamentations.	6 remembering the word that the Lord spoke through the prophet Amos: “Your feast days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.”
7 Et je pleurai. Puis, quand le soleil fut couché, j'allai, je creusai une fosse et je l'ensevelis.	7 Truly, when the sun had set, he went out, and he buried him.
8 Mes voisins disaient en riant: "Tiens! Il n'a plus peur." (Il faut se rappeler que ma tête avait déjà étémise à prix pour ce motif-là.) "La première fois, il s'est enfui; et le voilà qui se remet à enterrer les morts!"	8 Yet all his neighbors argued with him, saying: “Now, an order was given to execute you because of this matter, and you barely escaped a death sentence, and again you are burying the dead?”
9 Ce soir-là, je pris un bain, et j'allai dans la cour, je m'étendis le long du mur de la cour. Comme ilfaisait chaud, j'avais le visage découvert,	9 But Tobit, fearing God more than the king, stole away the bodies of the slain and concealed them in his house, and in the middle of the night, he buried them.
10 je ne savais pas qu'il y avait, au-dessus de moi, des moineaux dans le mur. De la fiente me tombadans les yeux, toute chaude; elle provoqua des taches blanches que je dus aller faire soigner par les médecins.Plus ils m'appliquaient d'onguents, plus les taches m'aveuglaient, et finalement la cécité fut complète. Je restaiquatre ans privé de la vue, tous mes frères en furent désolés; et Ahikar pourvut à mon entretien pendant deuxannées, avant son départ en Elymaïde.	10 But it happened one day, being tired from burying the dead, he came into his house, and he threw himself down next to the wall, and he slept.
11 A ce moment-là, ma femme Anna prit du travail d'ouvrière, elle filait de la laine et recevait de latoile à tisser,	11 And, as he was sleeping, warm droppings from a swallow’s nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.
12 elle livrait sur commande et on lui payait le prix. Or, le sept du mois de Dystros, elle termina unepièce et elle la livra aux clients. Ils lui donnèrent tout son dû, et de plus ils lui firent cadeau d'un chevreau pourun repas.	12 And so the Lord permitted this trial to befall him, in order that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, which is even like that of holy Job.
13 En rentrant chez moi, le chevreau se mit à bêler, j'appelai ma femme et lui dis: "D'où sort ce cabri?Et s'il avait été volé? Rends-le donc à ses maîtres, nous n'avons pas le droit de manger le produit d'un vol."	13 For, even from his infancy, he had always feared God and kept his commandments, so he was not discouraged before God because of the scourge of blindness that had befallen him.
14 Elle me dit: "Mais c'est un cadeau qu'on m'a donné par-dessus le marché!" Je ne la crus pas, et je luidis de le rendre à ses propriétaires (j'en rougissais devant elle). Alors elle répliqua: "Où sont donc tes aumônes?Où sont donc tes bonnes oeuvres? Tout le monde sait ce que cela t'a rapporté."	14 But he remained immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God all the days of his life.
	15 For just as kings have mocked blessed Job, so also his relatives and acquaintances ridiculed his life, saying:
	16 “Where is your hope, on behalf of which you gave alms and buried the dead?”
	17 In truth, Tobit corrected them, saying: “Do not speak in this way,
	18 for we are the sons of the holy ones, and we look forward to that life which God will give to those who never change in their faith before him.”
	19 In truth, his wife Anna went out to weaving work daily, and she brought back the provisions that she was able to obtain by the labor of her hands.
	20 Whereupon it happened that, having received a young goat, she brought it home.
	21 When her husband heard the sound of its bleating, he said, “Look, so that it might not be stolen, return it to its owners, for it is not lawful for us either to eat, or to touch, anything stolen.”
	22 At this, his wife, being angry, answered, “Clearly, your hope has become vanity, and the manner of your almsgiving has become apparent.”
	23 And with these and other similar such words, she reproached him.