Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Sparrows were on the wall right above me, but I did not know it. Their warm droppings fell into my eyes, causing a white film to form on them. I went to one doctor after another, but the more they treated me with their medicines, the worse my eyes became, until finally I was completely blind. For four years I could see nothing. My relatives were deeply concerned about my condition, and Ahikar supported me for two years before he went to the land of Elam. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept, Tobit 2:8Now 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? Tobit 2:9 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. Tobit 2:11 And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind. Tobit 2:12 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. Context Tobit 2…9But 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. 10Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept, 11And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.… Cross References Tobit 2:8 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? Tobit 2:9 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. Tobit 2:11 And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind. Tobit 2:12 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. |