Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation After Ahikar left, my wife Anna had to go to work, so she took up weaving, like many other women. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind. 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. Tobit 2:10 Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept, 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. Tobit 2:13 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, Context Tobit 2…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. 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.… Cross References 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 2:10 Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept, 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. Tobit 2:13 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, |