Tobit 4
King James Version with ApocryphaTranslation
King James Version with Apocrypha
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had committed to Gabael in Rages of Media,
1Therefore when Tobias thought that his prayer was heard that he might die, he called to him Tobias his son,
2And said with himself, I have wished for death; wherefore do I not call for my son Tobias that I may signify to him of the money before I die?
2And said to him: Hear, my son, the words of my mouth, and lay them as a foundation in thy heart.
3And when he had called him, he said, My son, when I am dead, bury me; and despise not thy mother, but honour her all the days of thy life, and do that which shall please her, and grieve her not.
3When God shall take my soul, thou shalt bury my body: and thou shalt honour thy mother all the days of her life:
4Remember, my son, that she saw many dangers for thee, when thou wast in her womb: and when she is dead, bury her by me in one grave.
4For thou must be mindful what and how great perils she suffered for thee in her womb.
5My son, be mindful of the Lord our God all thy days, and let not thy will be set to sin, or to transgress his commandments: do uprightly all thy life long, and follow not the ways of unrighteousness.
5And when she also shall have ended the time of her life, bury her by me.
6For if thou deal truly, thy doings shall prosperously succeed to thee, and to all them that live justly.
6And all the days of thy life have God in thy mind: and take heed thou never consent to sin, nor transgress the commandments of the Lord our God.
7Give alms of thy substance; and when thou givest alms, let not thine eye be envious, neither turn thy face from any poor, and the face of God shall not be turned away from thee.
7Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from any poor person: for so it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord shall not be turned from thee.
8If thou hast abundance give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little:
8According to thy ability be merciful.
9For thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the day of necessity.
9If thou have much give abundantly: if thou have a little, take care even so to bestow willingly a little.
10Because that alms do deliver from death, and suffereth not to come into darkness.
10For thus thou storest up to thyself a good reward for the day of necessity.
11For alms is a good gift unto all that give it in the sight of the most High.
11For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness.
12Beware of all whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father’s tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land.
12Alms shall be a great confidence before the most high God, to all them that give it.
13Now therefore, my son, love thy brethren, and despise not in thy heart thy brethren, the sons and daughters of thy people, in not taking a wife of them: for in pride is destruction and much trouble, and in lewdness is decay and great want: for lewdness is the mother of famine.
13Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime.
14Let not the wages of any man, which hath wrought for thee, tarry with thee, but give him it out of hand: for if thou serve God, he will also repay thee: be circumspect my son, in all things thou doest, and be wise in all thy conversation.
14Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning.
15Do that to no man which thou hatest: drink not wine to make thee drunken: neither let drunkenness go with thee in thy journey.
15If any man hath done any work for thee, immediately pay him his hire, and let not the wages of thy hired servant stay with thee at all.
16Give of thy bread to the hungry, and of thy garments to them that are naked; and according to thine abundance give alms: and let not thine eye be envious, when thou givest alms.
16See thou never do to another what thou wouldst hate to have done to thee by another.
17Pour out thy bread on the burial of the just, but give nothing to the wicked.
17Eat thy bread with the hungry and the needy, and with thy garments cover the naked.
18Ask counsel of all that are wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable.
18Lay out thy bread, and thy wine upon the burial of a just man, and do not eat and drink thereof with the wicked.
19Bless the Lord thy God alway, and desire of him that thy ways may be directed, and that all thy paths and counsels may prosper: for every nation hath not counsel; but the Lord himself giveth all good things, and he humbleth whom he will, as he will; now therefore, my son, remember my commandments, neither let them be put out of thy mind.
19Seek counsel always of a wise man.
20And now I signify this to they that I committed ten talents to Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages in Media.
20Bless God at all times: and desire of him to direct thy ways, and that all thy counsels may abide in him.
21And fear not, my son, that we are made poor: for thou hast much wealth, if thou fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is pleasing in his sight.
21I tell thee also, my son, that I lent ten talents of silver, while thou wast yet a child, to Gabelus, in Rages a city of the Medes, and I have a note of his hand with me:
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22Now therefore inquire how thou mayst go to him, and receive of him the foresaid sum of money, and restore to him the note of his hand.
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23Fear not, my son: we lead indeed a poor life, but we shall have many good things if we fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is good.
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