2:5. And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,
2:6. Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.
2:7. So when the sun was down, he went and buried him.
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?
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.
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.