1 Enoch 98:3
Study resource: not ScriptureR. H. Charles translation (1917) · public domain
Therefore they shall be wanting in doctrine and wisdom, And they shall perish thereby together with their possessions; And with all their glory and their splendour, And in shame and in slaughter and in great destitution, Their spirits shall be cast into the furnace of fire.
This verse’s chapter, studied
Nothing Is Hidden: Every Sin Is Written Down
Enoch swears an oath to wise and foolish alike that hard experience is coming for everyone. He condemns men for dressing in finery beyond what even a woman would wear, insists that sin is something people create for themselves rather than something forced on them, and warns that every sin is written down and seen by God every day, whether the sinner believes it or not.
- Matthew 13:42 : "cast into the furnace of fire" echoes Jesus' own description of the end of the age, the wicked "cast...into a furnace of fire".
- Malachi 3:16 : "every sin is every day recorded in heaven" stands beside "a book of remembrance was written before him".
- Galatians 6:7 : "man of himself has created" his own sin stands beside "be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap".
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.