the-book-of-enoch-r-h-charles - Fallen Angels

258 The Booh of Enoch [Sect, v
10. And we have been destroj'ed and have not found any to
help us even with a word :
We have been tortured [and destroyed], and not hoped to
see life from day to day.
11. We hoped to be the head and have become the tail :
We have toiled laboriously and had no satisfaction in our
toil
;
And we have become the food of the sinners and the
unrighteous^
And they have laid their yoke heavily upon us.
12. They have had dominion over us that hated us fand smote us
And to those that hated us f we have bowed our necks
But they pitied us not.
13. We desired to get away from them that we might escape
and be at rest^
But found no place whereunto we should flee and be safe
from them.
14. And we complained to the rulers in our tribulation,
And cried out against those who devoured us.
But they did not attend to our cries
And would not hearken to our voice.
consist only in a change of the person {a~t, delay itt^V). t, P-cMoy -fij} 'and
ofthe verb or suffix. Been consumed. they have had'. They have had
i(/
' they have suffered from disease '. dominion . that hated us. For
Become few. Cf. Deut. 286^ Pb. 107='. diction cf. Esther 9^. To those that
Our spirit small. Not ' humble ' but hated us. I think that this is a ditto-
' poor spirited '
(iuKp6ifvxoi). 10. graph from the preceding line, and that
Cf. Deut. 2&'^i ^^> ". We . . . have the clause which should be here has
not found any to help us even been transposed into that line. Hence
with a word {a-^gt"). So ^g but with I suggest that we should read:
a change of persons, t, |3
:
' there has ' They have had dominion over ua
been none to help us in word or deed
that hated us,
we are powerless and have found And to those that smote us we have
nothing'. 11. "We hoped (a). bowed our necks,
j3 ' and we hoped '. To be the But they pitied us not.'
head, &o. From Deut. 28'=. Laid 13."W"edesired(a-jp).i.9,/3 prefix'and'.
their yoke . upon us. From 14. Cried out. + 'and made lamen-
Deut. 28