Restored to his home in Nineveh, Tobit keeps the Feast of Weeks and sends his son Tobias to bring in a poor Israelite to share the meal, only to learn that one of their people lies strangled in the marketplace. Leaving his food untouched, he recovers the body and buries it after sundown, then sleeps beside the courtyard wall, where droppings from sparrows fall warm into his eyes and leave him blind. Physicians cannot help, and for two years his kinsman Ahikar provides for him until duty calls Ahikar away. When his wife Anna earns a young goat at her weaving and Tobit, suspecting theft, rebukes her, she answers by mocking the charity that has brought him only ruin, a sharp reminder that his righteousness has not spared him suffering. The account shows piety persisting under affliction, the very trial the story is set to answer.