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

292 The Book of Enoch. [Sect.v.
hopeful ye that die in righteousness. 5. And grieve not if
your soul descends in grief into Sheol, and that in your life
your body has not fared as your goodness deserved but truly
as on a day on which ye became like the sinners, and on a day
of cursing and chastisement. 6. And when ye die the
sinners speak over you :
' As we die, so die the righteous, and
what benefit do they reap from their deeds ? 7. Behold, even
as we, so do they die in grief and darkness, and what advantage
have they over us ? from henceforth we are equal. 8. And
what will they receive and what will they see for ever? for
behold they too have died, and from henceforth for ever they
will see no light/ 9. I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content
to eat and drink and strip men naked, and rob and sin and
acquire wealth and see good days. 10. Have ye seen the
righteous how their end falls out ? for no manner of violence
Children of earth. Wanting in G. 4. Ye that die. So
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