Tobías 10

1Mas como tardase Tobías, por razón de las bodas, estaba su padre Tobías con ansiedades, y decía: “¿Quién sabe por qué tarda mi hijo, o por qué se ha detenido allí?

2¿Ha muerto tal vez Gabelo, y no hay quien le devuelva el dinero?”

3Con esto empezó a afligirse sobremanera, y con él su mujer Ana. Ambos se pusieron a llorar juntamente porque su hijo no volvía a ellos al tiempo señalado.

4Su madre derramaba sin cesar lágrimas, y decía: “¡Ay, ay de mí, hijo mío! ¿Para qué te hemos enviado a lejanas tierras, lumbrera de nuestros ojos, báculo de nuestra vejez, consuelo de nuestra vida, esperanza de nuestra posteridad?

5Teniendo en ti solo todas las cosas juntas, no te debíamos dejar ir de nosotros.”

6Mas Tobías le decía: “Cálmate y no te inquietes; a nuestro hijo le va bien; es muy fiel el varón aquel con quien le enviamos.”

7Pero ella no se dejaba consolar, antes saliendo cada día fuera miraba hacia todas partes, y recorría todos los caminos por donde se esperaba que pudiera volver, para verlo venir, si posible fuese, desde lejos.

8Entretanto Ragüel decía a su yerno: “Quédate aquí, que yo enviaré a tu padre Tobías noticias de tu salud.”

9Tobías le respondió: “Yo sé que mi padre y mi madre están ahora contando los días y que su espíritu se consume en ansiedades.”

10Y después de haber hecho Ragüel repetidas instancias a Tobías, sin que este en lo más mínimo oyera sus razones, le entregó a Sara, con la mitad de su hacienda en siervos y siervas, en ganados, en camellos, en vacas, y con una gran cantidad de dinero. Así le dejó ir de su casa, sano y gozoso,

11diciendo: “El santo ángel del Señor os acompañe en vuestro viaje, y os conduzca sanos y salvos. Que halléis en próspero estado todas las cosas en casa de vuestros padres, y puedan ver mis ojos, antes que muera, a vuestros hijos.”

12Y tomando los padres a su hija, la besaron y la dejaron ir;

13amonestándola que honrase a sus suegros, amase al marido, cuidase de su familia, gobernase la casa y se portase de un modo irreprensible.

1Cum vero moras faceret Tobias, causa nuptiarum, sollicitus erat pater ejus Tobias, dicens: Putas quare moratur filius meus, aut quare detentus est ibi?

2Putasne Gabelus mortuus est, et nemo reddet illi pecuniam?

3Cœpit autem contristari nimis ipse, et Anna uxor ejus cum eo: et cœperunt ambo simul flere, eo quod die statuto minime reverteretur filius eorum ad eos.

4Flebat igitur mater ejus irremediabilibus lacrimis, atque dicebat: Heu, heu me, fili mi ! ut quid te misimus peregrinari, lumen oculorum nostrorum, baculum senectutis nostræ, solatium vitæ nostræ, spem posteritatis nostræ?

5omnia simul in te uno habentes, te non debuimus dimittere a nobis.

6Cui dicebat Tobias: Tace, et noli turbari: sanus est filius noster: satis fidelis est vir ille, cum quo misimus eum.

7Illa autem nullo modo consolari poterat, sed quotidie exiliens circumspiciebat, et circuibat vias omnes per quas spes remeandi videbatur, ut procul videret eum, si fieri posset, venientem.

8At vero Raguel dicebat ad generum suum: Mane hic, et ego mittam nuntium salutis de te ad Tobiam patrem tuum.

9Cui Tobias ait: Ego novi quia pater meus et mater mea modo dies computant, et cruciatur spiritus eorum in ipsis.

10Cumque verbis multis rogaret Raguel Tobiam, et ille eum nulla ratione vellet audire, tradidit ei Saram, et dimidiam partem omnis substantiæ suæ in pueris, in puellis, in pecudibus, in camelis, et in vaccis, et in pecunia multa: et salvum atque gaudentem dimisit eum a se,

11dicens: Angelus Domini sanctus sit in itinere vestro, perducatque vos incolumes, et inveniatis omnia recte circa parentes vestros, et videant oculi mei filios vestros priusquam moriar.

12Et apprehendentes parentes filiam suam, osculati sunt eam: et dimiserunt ire,

13monentes eam honorare soceros, diligere maritum, regere familiam, gubernare domum, et seipsam irreprehensibilem exhibere.

1But as Tobias made longer stay upon occasion of the marriage, Tobias his father was solicitous, saying: Why thinkest thou doth my son tarry, or why is he detained there?

2Is Gabelus dead, thinkest thou, and no man will pay him the money?

3And he began to be exceeding sad, both he and Anna his wife with him: and they began both to weep together: because their son did not return to them on the day appointed.

4But his mother wept and was quite disconsolate, and said: Woe, woe is me, my son; why did we send thee to go to a strange country, the light of our eyes, the staff of our old age, the comfort of our life, the hope of our posterity?

5We having all things together in thee alone, ought not to have let thee go from us.

6And Tobias said to her: Hold thy peace, and be not troubled, our son is safe: that man with whom we sent him is very trusty.

7But she could by no means be comforted, but daily running out looked round about, and went into all the ways by which there seemed any hope he might return, that she might if possible see him coming afar off.

8But Raguel said to his son in law: Stay here, and I will send a messenger to Tobias thy father, that thou art in health.

9And Tobias said to him: I know that my father and mother now count the days, and their spirit is grievously afflicted within them.

10And when Raguel had pressed Tobias with many words, and he by no means would hearken to him, he delivered Sara unto him, and half of all his substance in menservants, and womenservants, in cattle, in camels, and in kine, and in much money, and sent him away safe and joyful from him.

11Saying: The holy angel of the Lord be with you in your journey, and bring you through safe, and that you may find all things well about your parents, and my eyes see your children before I die.

12And the parents taking their daughter kissed her, and let her go:

13Admonishing her to honour her father and mother in law, to love her husband, to take care of the family, to govern the house, and to behave herself irreprehensibly.