Tobit

Tobit 2

Chapter II · Vol. III, pp. 1533–1534

1 Tobit leaveth his meat to bury the dead, and becometh blind. 11 His wife taketh in work to get her living. 14 Her husband and she fall out about a kid.

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1 NOW when I was come home again, and ¹my wife Anna was restored unto me, with my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is ²the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, in the which I sat down to eat.

1 ch. 1. 20.

2 Ex. 34. 22. Deut. 16. 9, 10, 11.

2 And when I saw abundance of meat, I said to my son, Go and bring what ³poor man soever thou shalt find out of our brethren, who is mindful of the Lord; and lo, I tarry for thee.

3 ch. 1. 16, 17.

3 But he came again, and said, Father, one of our nation is strangled, and is cast out in the market place.

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.

5 Then I returned, and washed myself, and ate my meat in heaviness.

6 Remembering that prophecy of ⁴Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation.

4 Amos 8. 10.

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7 Therefore I wept: and after the going down of the sun I went ⁵and made a grave, and buried him.

5 ch. 1. 17.

8 But my neighbours mocked me, and said, This man is not yet afraid to be put to death for this matter: ⁶who fled away; and yet lo, he burieth the dead again.

6 ch. 1. 19.

9 The same night also I returned from the burial, and slept by the wall of my court-yard, ⁷being polluted, and my face was uncovered:

7 Num. 3. 11.

10 And I knew not that there were ⁸sparrows in the wall, and mine eyes being open, the sparrows muted warm dung into mine eyes, and ⁹a 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.

8 Or, swallows.

9 Or, white films.

11 And my wife Anna ^*did take women's works to do.

* Or, was hired to spin in the women's rooms.

12 And when she had sent ^†them home to the owners, they paid her wages, and gave her also besides a kid.

† Or, her work.

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.

‡ Ex. 23. 4. Deut. 22. 1.

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, ¹Where are thine alms and thy righteous deeds? ²behold, thou and all thy works are known.

‖ Job 2. 9.

1 ch. 1. 8, 16, 17.

2 Or, lo, all things are known to thee.