BOOK OF ENOCH 42

Wisdom found no place where she might dwell;
Then a dwelling-place was assigned her in the heavens.
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.
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.

Tr. R.H. Charles, in The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English, 1913. Vol. 2, p. 213.


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