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1 Enoch 16:2

Study resource: not Scripture

R. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain

And now as to the watchers who have sent thee to intercede for them, who had been aforetime in heaven, (say to them):

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"You Have No Peace" — the Verdict Repeated and Sealed

The evil spirits that come from the dead giants will go on causing harm without restraint until the final judgment. God's message to the Watchers is repeated and made final: they revealed heavenly mysteries they should have kept, taught them to women, and through that knowledge much evil has spread on the earth. They are told plainly: "you have no peace."

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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.

Michael S. Heiser

A Companion to the Book of Enoch: A Reader's Commentary, Vol. I — The Book of the Watchers (2019)

A verse-by-verse reader's commentary on chapters 1–36: the closest thing in print to a study Bible for this section.

Michael S. Heiser

Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ (2017)

How the Watchers story of these chapters stands behind New Testament theology.

Gary Wayne

The Genesis 6 Conspiracy (2014)

A topical case for the Watchers reading these chapters narrate: giants, bloodlines, and the seed war.

Timothy Alberino

Birthright: The Coming Posthuman Apocalypse and the Usurpation of Adam's Dominion on Planet Earth (2020)

Reads the Watchers rebellion of these chapters into the Bible's larger dominion story.