Tobit
4:1 In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had committed to Gabael
in Rages of Media,
4:2 And 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?
4:3 And 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.
4:4 Remember, 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.
4:5 My 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.
4:6 For if thou deal truly, thy doings shall prosperously succeed to thee,
and to all them that live justly.
4:7 Give 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.
4:8 If thou hast abundance give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little,
be not afraid to give according to that little:
4:9 For thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the day of
necessity.
4:10 Because that alms do deliver from death, and suffereth not to come into
darkness.
4:11 For alms is a good gift unto all that give it in the sight of the most
High.
4:12 Beware 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.
4:13 Now 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.
4:14 Let 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.
4:15 Do that to no man which thou hatest: drink not wine to make thee
drunken: neither let drunkenness go with thee in thy journey.
4:16 Give 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.
4:17 Pour out thy bread on the burial of the just, but give nothing to the
wicked.
4:18 Ask counsel of all that are wise, and despise not any counsel that is
profitable.
4:19 Bless 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.
4:20 And now I signify this to they that I committed ten talents to Gabael
the son of Gabrias at Rages in Media.
4:21 And 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.
