8. Yet all his neighbors argued with him, saying: "Now, an order was given to execute you because of this matter, and you barely escaped a death sentence, and again you are burying the dead?"
9. But Tobit, fearing God more than the king, stole away the bodies of the slain and concealed them in his house, and in the middle of the night, he buried them.
10. But it happened one day, being tired from burying the dead, he came into his house, and he threw himself down next to the wall, and he slept.
11. And, as he was sleeping, warm droppings from a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.
12. And so the Lord permitted this trial to befall him, in order that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, which is even like that of holy Job.