5 And grieve not if your soul into Sheol has descended in grief, And that in your life your body fared not according to your goodness, But wait for the day of the judgement of sinners And for the day of cursing and chastisement. (ENO) 6 And yet when ye die the sinners speak over you: ‘As we die, so die the righteous, And what benefit do they reap for their deeds? (ENO) 7 Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness, And what have they more than we? From henceforth we are equal. (ENO)
Book of Enoch 102:5–7
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Book of Enoch 103:4–6
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Book of Enoch 97:1–2
1 Believe, ye righteous, that the sinners will become a shame And perish in the day of unrighteousness. (ENO) 2 Be it known unto you (ye sinners) that the Most High is mindful of your destruction, And the angels of heaven rejoice over your destruction. (ENO)
Sirach 41:3–5
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Book of Enoch 98:12–14
12 Woe to you who love the deeds of unrighteousness: wherefore do ye hope for good hap unto yourselves? know that ye shall be delivered into the hands of the righteous, and they shall cut off your necks and slay you, and have no mercy upon you. (ENO) 13 Woe to you who rej… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 96:1–2
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Book of Enoch 81:7–9
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Book of Enoch 99:14–16
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