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1 Enoch: the Book of Parables (Chapters 37-71)
1 ENOCH 42
1. Wisdom found no place where she might dwell; Then a dwelling-place was assigned her in the heavens.
2 Wisdom went forth to make her dwelling among the children of men, And found no dwelling-place:
Wisdom returned to her place, And took her seat among the angels.
3 And unrighteousness went forth from her chambers: Whom she sought not she found, And dwelt with them,
As rain in a desert And dew on a thirsty land.
XLIII. XLIV. Astronomical Secrets.
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Text. R. H. Charles, 1917. Translated for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and public domain by age. Double brackets mark words Charles restored by conjecture and a dagger marks a reading he judged corrupt. Verse numbers follow the marginal numbering of that printing and sometimes fall mid-sentence. The text was digitised by optical character recognition, so scattered typographic artifacts survive.