4 Fear ye not, ye souls of the righteous, And be hopeful ye that have died in righteousness. (ENO) 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)
Book of Enoch 102:4–6
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Book of Enoch 103:4–6
4 And the spirits of you who have died in righteousness shall live and rejoice, And their spirits shall not perish, nor their memorial from before the face of the Great One Unto all the generations of the world: wherefore no longer fear their contumely. (ENO) 5 Woe to y… (ENO)
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)
Book of Enoch 96:1–2
1 Be hopeful, ye righteous; for suddenly shall the sinners perish before you, And ye shall have lordship over them according to your desires. (ENO) 2 [And in the day of the tribulation of the sinners, Your children shall mount and rise as eagles, And higher than the vul… (ENO)
Sirach 41:3–5
3 Don’t be afraid of the sentence of death. Remember those who have been before you and who come after. This is the sentence from the Lord over all flesh. (WEB) 4 And why do you refuse when it is the good pleasure of the Most High? Whether life lasts ten, or a hundred,… (WEB) 5 … (WEB)
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 94:10–11
10 Thus I speak and declare unto you: He who hath created you will overthrow you, And for your fall there shall be no compassion, And your Creator will rejoice at your destruction. (ENO) 11 And your righteous ones in those days shall be A reproach to the sinners and the g… (ENO)
Book of Enoch 99:1–2
1 Woe to you who work godlessness, And glory in lying and extol them: Ye shall perish, and no happy life shall be yours. (ENO) 2 Woe to them who pervert the words of uprightness, And transgress the eternal law, And transform themselves into what they were not [into sinn… (ENO)
2 Baruch 11:3–5
3 Who will be judge regarding these things? Or to whom shall we complain regarding that which has befallen us? O Lord, how hast Thou borne (it)? (2BA) 4 Our fathers went to rest without grief And lo! the righteous sleep in the earth in tranquillity; (2BA) 5 For they knew not thi… (2BA)
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