1 Enoch 23
1Observe the heaven, ye children of heaven, and every work of the Most High, and fear ye Him and work no evil in His presence.
2If He closes the windows of heaven, and withholds the rain and the dew from descending on the earth on your account, what will ye do then?
3And if He sends His anger upon you because of your deeds, ye cannot petition Him; for ye spake proud and insolent words against His righteousness: therefore ye shall have no peace.
4And see ye not the sailors of the ships, how their ships are tossed to and fro by the waves, and are shaken by the winds, and are in sore trouble?
5And therefore do they fear because all their goodly possessions go into the sea with them, and they have evil forebodings of heart that the sea will swallow them and they will perish therein.
6Are not the entire sea and all its waters, and all its movements, the work of the Most High, and has He not set limits to its doings, and confined it throughout by the sand?
7And at His reproof it is afraid and dries up, and all its fish die and all that is in it; But ye sinners that are on the earth fear Him not.
8Has He not made the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein?
9Who has given understanding and wisdom to everything that moves on the earth and in the sea?
10Do not the sailors of the ships fear the sea? Yet sinners fear not the Most High.
11In those days when He hath brought a grievous fire upon you, whither will ye flee, and where will ye find deliverance?
12And when He launches forth His Word against you will you not be affrighted and fear? And all the luminaries shall be affrighted with great fear and all the earth shall be affrighted and tremble and be alarmed.
13And all the angels shall execute their commandst and shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Great Glory, and the children of earth shall tremble and quake; and ye sinners shall be cursed for ever, and ye shall have no peace.
14Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous and be hopeful ye that have died in righteousness.
15And 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.
16And 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? Behold, even as we, so do they die in grief and darkness and what have they more than we? From henceforth we are equal. 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."
17I 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. Have ye seen the righteous how their end falls out, that no manner of violence is found in them till their death?
18Nevertheless they perished and became as though they had not been, and their spirits descended into Sheol in tribulation."