1 Enoch
Anonymous Enochic writers
Chapter 5
About this work
A composite collection of Jewish visions, journeys through the heavens, and teachings about judgment and the world to come, attributed to Enoch. Its component dates are disputed, and the work survives chiefly in Ethiopic with earlier Aramaic and Greek witnesses.
- Author
- Anonymous Enochic writers
- Date
- Component dates disputed; principally Second Temple period
- Genre
- Apocalypse
- Textual language
- Aramaic; Ethiopic and Greek transmission
- Attribution
- Enoch
- Translator
- R. H. Charles
- Translation / Edition
- R. H. Charles translation, first published 1917.
V. 1. Observe 〚ye〛 how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear fruit: wherefore give ye heed ⌜and know⌝ with regard to all ⌜His works⌝, and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so.
2. And ⌜all⌝ His works go on ⌜thus⌝ from year to year ⌜for ever⌝, and all the tasks ⌜which⌝ they accomplish for Him, and ⌜their tasks⌝ change not, but according as 〚God〛 hath ordained so is it done.
3. And behold how the sea and the rivers in like manner accomplish ⌜and change not⌝ their tasks ⌜from His commandments⌝.
4. But ye—ye have not been steadfast, nor done the commandments of the Lord,
But ye have turned away and spoken proud and hard words
With your impure mouths against His greatness.
Oh, ye hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace.
5. Therefore shall ye execrate your days,
And the years of your life shall perish,