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,
2:11. And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.
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.
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,
2:14. But continued immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God all the days of his life.
2:15. For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and kinsmen mocked at his life, saying:
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.