Tobit 10:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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

³ And 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.

⁴ But 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?