Genesis - douay rheims

Chapter 2

¹ But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias's house,
² He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God, to feast with us.
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 And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously.
⁵ And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,
⁶ Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.
⁷ So when the sun was down, he went and buried him.
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 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 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 as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.
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 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 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.

Genesis - world english bible

Chapter 2

¹ when I arrived home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me with my son Tobias, at the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, a good dinner was prepared for me, which I sat down to eat.
² when I saw the abundance of meat, I said to my son, "Go and bring whatsoever poor man you find among our brethren, who is mindful of the Lord, and, see, I will wait for you."
³ he returned and said, "Father, one of our nation was strangled and cast out in the marketplace."
⁴ before I had tasted any of the meat, I went out, and took him up into a room until sundown.
⁵ I returned, and washed myself, and ate my meat in sadness,
⁶ the prophecy of Amos, as he said, "Your feasts shall be turned into mourning and all your mirth into lamentation."
⁷ I wept, and after sundown I went and made a grave and buried him.
⁸ my neighbors mocked me and said, "This man is still not afraid to be put to death for this matter; and, see, though he fled away before, he now buries the dead again."
⁹ same night, I returned from the burial and slept by the wall of my courtyard, because I was polluted. And my face was uncovered,
¹⁰ I did not know that there were sparrows in the wall. And, since my eyes were open, the sparrows emitted warm dung into my eyes, and a whiteness fell into my eyes. And I went to the physicians, but they did not help me. Moreover, Achiacharus had to nourish me, until I went into Elymais.
¹¹ my wife Anna took in women's work.
¹² when she had sent these home again to the owners, they paid her her wages and gave her in addition a young goat.
¹³ when it was in my house, and began to call out, I said to her, "Where did this young goat come from? Is it not stolen? Return it to the owners, for it is not lawful to eat anything which is stolen."
¹⁴ she replied to me, "It was given as a gift, over and above my wages." However, I did not believe her, but directed her to return it to the owners, and I was ashamed at her. But she replied to me, "Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? See now, you and all your works are known."