Chanuk (Enoch) — 102

1 In those days, when he shall cast the calamity of fire upon you, whither will you fly, and where will you be safe?

2 And when he sends forth his word against you, are you not spared, and terrified?

3 All the luminaries are agitated with great fear; and all the Arath is spared, while it trembles, and suffers anxiety.

4 All the Malakym fulfill the commands received by them and are desirous of being concealed from the presence of the great Kabad, while the children of the Arath are alarmed and troubled.

5 But you, sinners, are forever accursed; to you there shall be no Shalum.

6 Fear not, souls of the righteous; but wait with patient hope for the day of your death in righteousness. Grieve not, because your souls descend in great trouble, with groaning, lamentation, and sorrow, to the receptacle of the dead. In your lifetime your bodies have not received a recompense in proportion to your goodness, but in the period of your existence sinners have existed; in the period of execration and of punishment.

7 Behold what the sinners are saying, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness, And what have they more than we? From henceforth we are equal.

8 And what will they receive and what will they see for ever? Behold, they too have died, And henceforth for ever shall they see no light.’

9 I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and strip men naked, and acquire wealth and see good days.

10 Have you seen the righteous how their end falls out, that no manner of violence is found in them till their death?

11 ‘Nevertheless the sinners perished and became as though they had not been, and their spirits descended into the abode of the dead in tribulation.’

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