1 Enoch 101:4
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
And 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?
This verse’s chapter, studied
The Sailors Fear the Storm; The Sinners Fear Nothing
Enoch calls his readers to observe the heavens and fear the Most High who made them. He points to sailors, who fear the sea because it carries everything they own, and to the sea itself, which "is afraid and dries up" at God's reproof: then contrasts both with sinners on dry land, who fear nothing at all.
- Psalms 107:23 : "the sailors of the ships" in sore trouble on the waves stands beside the Psalm's picture of those "that go down to the sea in ships".
- Jonah 1:5 : sailors afraid amid a storm at sea echoes the mariners of Jonah's ship who "were afraid, and cried every man unto his god".
Teachers on this ground
R. H. Charles
The Book of Enoch (1917)
The public-domain translation this shelf reads, with the critical introduction the field still builds on.
Johnny Enlow
The Book of Enoch: Paraphrase and Commentary (2025)
A living teacher's paraphrase of the whole book with his own running commentary, from the prophetic stream.