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. 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.