1 Now when I had come home again and my wife Ḥannah was restored to me with my son Toḇi, at the Festival of Shaḇuoth – which is the qodesh Feast of the seven weeks – there was a good dinner prepared for me, for which I sat down to eat.
2 And when I saw the abundance of food, I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man you shall find from among our brothers, who remembers 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; and see, I wait for you.”
3 But he returned and said, “Father, one of our nation is strangled and is thrown out in the marketplace!”
4 Then before I had tasted any of the food, I stood up and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun.
5 Then I returned and washed myself, and ate my food in heaviness,
6 remembering the neḇuah of Amos, when he said, “Your Festivals shall turn into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation.”
7 Therefore I wept; and after the going down of the sun I went and dug a grave, and buried him.
8 But my neighbours mocked me and said, “This man is still not afraid to be put to death for this deed; who fled away, and yet see, he buries the dead again.”
9 I also returned the same night from the burial and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being unclean. But my face was uncovered,
10 and I did not know that there were sparrows on the wall, the sparrows excreted warm dung into my eyes, and when I opened them, a whiteness came into my eyes. And I went to the physicians, but they could not help me, and Aḥiqar sustained me, until I went to Ĕylam.
11 And my wife Ḥannah took women’s work to do,
12 and when she had sent them home to the owners, they paid her wages, and also gave her a young goat as well.
13 And when it was in my house, and began to cry, I said to her, “Where is this young goat from? is it not stolen? Return it to the owners, for it is not Lawful to eat whatever is stolen.”
14 But she replied to me, “It was given for a gift in addition to the wages.” However I did not believe her, but told her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her. But she replied to me, “Where are your kind deeds and your righteous deeds? See, you and all your works are known.”