The interpretation timeline

Tob 2:15

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 2:15 · Douay-Rheims
“For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and kinsmen mocked at his life, saying:”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Kings. So Job’s three friends are here called, because they were princes in their respective territories, (Challoner) like the petty kings of Palestine, in the days of Abraham and of Josue. They are styled kings in the Greek version of Job. (Calmet) — Relations, ( parentes .) His father and mother were dead. (Worthington)”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.