Tobit 2:8 - Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

⁸ My neighbors made fun of me and said to each other, “Tobit had to go into hiding once, when the king tried to have him arrested and put to death for burying people like this one. You would think Tobit would be afraid to do the same thing again.”

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Common English Bible

⁸ My neighbors made fun of me, saying, “Is he no longer afraid that he will be killed for doing this kind of thing? He ran away, but now look: he is burying the dead again!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

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?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: Once already commandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter; and thou didst scarce escape the sentence of death. And dost thou again bury the dead?

Good News Translation (US Version)

⁸ My neighbors thought I was crazy. “Haven't you learned anything?” they asked. “You have already been hunted down once for burying the dead, and you would have been killed if you had not run away. But here you are doing the same thing all over again.”

World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers

⁸ My neighbors mocked me, and said, “He is no longer afraid to be put to death for this matter; and yet he fled away. Behold, he buries the dead again.”

Tobit 2:8 Cross References