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A veiled figure symbolizing Wisdom rises from an indifferent ancient town toward the angels as dark rain settles below.
ANCIENT JEWISH LITERATURE · R. H. CHARLES

1 ENOCH 42

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CHAPTER VISUAL

Enoch 42 — Wisdom finds no dwelling among humanity and returns to heaven while unrighteousness descends to earth.

About this illustration

Wisdom and unrighteousness are treated as poetic personifications through veiled ascent and storm-dark atmosphere, not as literal divine bodies.

Passage basis: 1 Enoch 42:1–3
Ancient Jewish literatureIncluded for historical and biblical study; not part of the Protestant biblical canon.
  1. 1Wisdom found no place where she might dwell; Then a dwelling-place was assigned her in the heavens.
  2. 2Wisdom 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. 3And 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.

R. H. Charles translation (1912) · Reprinted 1917 · Public domain in the United States · Editorial brackets and uncertainty markers preserved · Source edition