23. And when they had set out, his mother began to weep, and to say: "You have taken the staff of our old age, and you have sent him away from us.
24. I wish that the money, for which you sent him, had never been.
25. For our poverty has been sufficient for us, so that we might count it as riches that we saw our son."
26. And Tobit said to her: "Do not weep. Our son will arrive safely, and he will return safely to us, and your eyes shall see him.
27. For I believe that the good Angel of God accompanies him and that he orders all things well which occur around him, such that he will be returned to us with gladness."
28. At these words, his mother ceased weeping, and she was silent.