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Kings... So Job's three friends are here called, because they were
princes in their respective territories.
2:16. Where is thy hope, for which thou gavest alms, and buriedst the
dead?
2:17. But Tobias rebuked them, saying: Speak not so:
2:18. For we are the children of saints, and look for that life which
God will give to those that never change their faith from him.
2:19. 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.
2:20. Whereby it came to pass, that she received a young kid, and
brought it home:
2:21. 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.
2:22. At these words his wife being angry answered: It is evident the
hope is come to nothing, and thy alms now appear.
2:23. And with these and other, such like words she upbraided him.
Tobias Chapter 3
The prayer of Tobias, and of Sara, in their several afflictions, are
heard by God, and the angel Raphael is sent to relieve them.
3:1. Then Tobias sighed, and began to pray with tears,
3:2. Saying, Thou art just, O Lord, and all thy judgments are just, and
all thy ways mercy, and truth, and judgment:
3:3. And now, O Lord, think of me, and take not revenge of my sins,
neither remember my offences, nor those of my parents.
3:4. For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we delivered
to spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable, and a
reproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us.
3:5. And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done
according to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee.
3:6. And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my
spirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to
live.
3:7. Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in
Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's
servant maids,
Rages... In the Greek it is Ecbatana, which was also called Rages. For
there were two cities in Media of the name of Rages. Raguel dwelt in one
of them, and Gabelus in the other.
3:8. Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named
Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.
3:9. So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her,
saying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou
murderer of thy husbands.
3:10. Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven
husbands? At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house:
and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:
3:11. But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would
deliver her from this reproach.
3:12. And it came to pass on the third day when she was making an end of
her prayer, blessing the Lord,
3:13. She said: Blessed is thy name, O God of our fathers, who when thou
hast been angry, wilt shew mercy, and in the time of tribulation
forgivest the sins of them that call upon thee.
3:14. To thee, O Lord, I turn my face, to thee I direct my eyes.
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