The book of Enoch : translated from Professor Dillmann's Ethiopic ...

278 The Book of Enoch. [Sect.V.
the clefts of the rock for ever before the unrighteous, and they
will sigh and weep because of you as satyrs.] 3. Where-
fore fear not, ye that suffer ; for healing will be your portion,
and a bright light will enlighten you, and you will hear the
voice of rest from heaven. 4. Woe unto you, ye sinners, for
your riches make you appear like the righteous, but your
hearts convict you of being sinners, and this word will be a
testimony against you, for a memorial of (your) wickedness.
5. Woe to you who devour the finest of the wheat and drink
the power of the source of the fountain, and tread under foot
the lowly with your might. 6. Woe to you who drink
water at all times ;
for suddenly will you be requited and will
dry up and wither, because ye have forsaken the fountain of
life. 7. Woe to you who work unrighteousness and deceit
and blasphemy: it will be a memorial against you for evil.
8. Woe to you, ye mighty, who with might oppress the
righteous ; for the day of your destruction will come. In
firfiMP. Will sigh and weep because of you as satyrs.
G reads : fr>»Yb\ fr^^lPtn*: a)£Ml\ &££*. 4 Your riches.
Before these words G inserts Xff». A memorial of (your)
wickedness. G reads : +"H*iC; Kh-Fi. 8. Oppress. G reads
SfrCVP.
of the earth, &c. These words are the O.T. doctrine of retribution, pros-
taken from Is. ii. 10, 19, 21, and are perity was a mark of righteousness,
used there of those who flee through This word, i. e. that your riches
fear from the presence of the Lord. prove you to be righteous. For a
Hence they are most inappropriate memorial, &c: cf. ver. 7. 5. The
in their present connexion. Before finest of the wheat: Pss. lxxxi. 16;
the unrighteous. These words imply cxlvii. 14. The power of the source
that the righteous go into the clefts of the fountain. This must mean
of the rocks to escape the unrighteous. the purest water. 6. Drink water
Sigh and weep because of you, at all times. If the text is right,
&c. The present text is very doubt- this phrase describes the self-indulgent
ful : see Crit. Note. 3. A bright life : the end of such a life will be
light : see xxxviii. 4 (note). 4. painful want ; for they have forsaken
Your riches make you appear like the fountain of true life : cf. Jer. ii.
the righteous. Wealthy sinnerscould 13; Ps. xxxvi. 9. 7. Cf. xci. 8 ;
appeal to their riches as a proof of xciv. 6, 9. For a memorial : cf.
their righteousness ; for, according to ver. 4. 8. Many and good days.