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

296 The Book of Enoch. [Sect. v.
are in life :
' In the days of their life they are worn out with
their troublous toil, and have experienced every trouble and
met with much evil and suffered from disease, and have been
minished and become small in spirit. 10. And they are
destroyed, and there has been none to help them (even) in word
and have attained to nothing : they are tortured and destroyed,
and have not hoped to see life from day to day. j 1. And
they hoped to be the head and they have become the tail
they toiled laboriously and attained not to the fruit of their
toil; and they became the food of sinners, and the unrighteous
laid their yoke heavily upon them. 13. And
they that hated them and smote them have had dominion
over them; and they have bowed their necks to those that
hated them and they have had no compassion on them. 13.
And they have desired to get away from them that they
might escape and be at rest, but have found no place where-
the sinners in vv. 7-9. Conclusion. We shall therefore adopt
the third person throughout in these verses. Space will not
admit of more than a few of the variations being given, and these
will not be mere variations of 1st and 3rd persons, but of words.
Din. gives the first person throughout in the case of the righteous.
In ciii. 9-15 I have translated the perfects as Greek perfects,
and the imperfects as pasts. In the days of their life they
are worn out with their troublous toil. So G: Qcn>«p0A;
thf-m^ao". %PH\ r>6.frao*i Rm>m«. Din. gives, 'in the days of
our adversity we were worn out with toil/ G 1 : ClODVOCi; ft&{**(Wi
%PH\ Zavahi. Suffered from disease. So G £.0*$, which we
should emend into &aft. Other MSS. ' were consumed/ +wXOh
10. (Even) in word and have attained to nothing. So G : dilCl
(DKd^l^li KdflCt, and also G 1 M, except in the person of the
verb. In the translation I have omitted a in (Dhd^lefl with
later MSS. Din. gives, ' with word and deed we were powerless
and could attain to nothing.' n. Hoped. So G J&&4.01..
to. This can also be translated ' to.' become small, &c. : cf. Ps. cvii. 39.
From disease : see Crit. Note. Cf. Small in spirit. Not ' humble ' but
Deut. xxviii. 21, 22. 10. Cf. Deut. 'poor-spirited' (hikP 6$vX os). 11.
xxviii. 29, 66, 67. Minished and Cf. Deut. xxviii. 13, 30, 31. 12.