Tobit 2:9-11

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⁹On the same night I returned from burying him, and because I was defiled I slept by the wall of the courtyard, and my face was uncovered. ¹⁰I did not know that there were sparrows on the wall and their fresh droppings fell into my open eyes and white films formed on my eyes. I went to physicians, but they did not help me. Ahi′kar, however, took care of me until he^[a] went to Elyma′is.^[b]

Tobit’s Wife Earns Their Livelihood

¹¹Then my wife Anna earned money at women’s work.

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Footnotes

Tobit 2:10 Other authorities read I
2.10 Vulgate adds (verses 12-18): “¹²Now 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. ¹³For 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, ¹⁴but continued immovable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God all the days of his life. ¹⁵For as the kings insulted over holy Job, so his relations and kinsmen mocked at his life, saying: ¹⁶Where is thy hope, for which thou gavest alms, and buriedst the dead? ¹⁷But Tobias rebuked them, saying, Speak not so; ¹⁸for we are the children of saints, and look for that life which God will give to those that never change their faith from him.”

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