Biblia Platense (Straubinger) · Catholic Public Domain Version
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? In truth, when Tobias was delayed because of the marriage celebration, his father Tobit was worried, saying: “Why do you think my son is delayed, or why has he been detained there?2¿Ha muerto tal vez Gabelo, y no hay quien le devuelva el dinero?” Do you think that Gabael has died, and that no one will repay him the money?”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. And so he began to be exceedingly sad, both he and his wife Anna with him. And they both began to weep together, because their son did not at least return to them on the appointed day.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? But his mother wept inconsolable tears, and also said: “Woe, woe to me, O my son. Why did we send you to journey far away, you: the light of our eyes, the staff of our old age, the solace of our life, the hope of our posterity?5Teniendo en ti solo todas las cosas juntas, no te debíamos dejar ir de nosotros.” Having all things together as one in you, we ought not to have dismissed you from us.”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.” And Tobit was saying to her: “Be calm, and do not be troubled. Our son is safe. That man, with whom we sent him, is faithful enough.”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. Yet she was by no means able to be consoled. But, leaping up every day, she looked all round, and traveled around all the ways, by which there seemed any hope that he might return, so that she might possibly see him coming from afar.8Entretanto Ragüel decía a su yerno: “Quédate aquí, que yo enviaré a tu padre Tobías noticias de tu salud.” In truth, Raguel said to his son-in-law, “Remain here, and I will send a message of your health to your father Tobit.”9Tobías le respondió: “Yo sé que mi padre y mi madre están ahora contando los días y que su espíritu se consume en ansiedades.” And Tobias said to him, “I know that my father and my mother have now counted the days, and their spirit must be tortured within them.”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, And when Raguel had repeatedly petitioned Tobias, and he was by no means willing to listen to him, he delivered Sarah to him, and half of all his substance: with men and women servants, with sheep, camels, and cows, and with much money. And he dismissed him away, in safety and gladness, from him,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.” saying: “May the holy Angel of the Lord be with your journey, and may he lead you through unharmed, and may you discover that all is right concerning your parents, and may my eyes see your sons before I die.”12Y tomando los padres a su hija, la besaron y la dejaron ir; And the parents, taking hold of their daughter, kissed her and let her go:13amonestándola que honrase a sus suegros, amase al marido, cuidase de su familia, gobernase la casa y se portase de un modo irreprensible. admonishing her to honor her father-in-law, to love her husband, to guide the family, to govern the household, and to behave irreproachably herself.