The Book of the Secrets of Enoch 41
Enoch saw every forefather from all time gathered with Adam and Eve, then sighed and broke into tears.
1nd I saw all forefathers from (all) time with Adam and Eva (Eve), and I sighed and broke into tears and said of the ruin of their dishonour:
2 Woe is me for my infirmity and (for that) of my forefathers, and thought in my heart and said:
3 Blessed (is) the man who has not been born or who has been born and shall not sin before the Lord's face, that he come not into this place, nor bring the yoke of this place.
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Enoch saw every forefather from all time gathered with Adam and Eve, then sighed and broke into tears.
He wept over the ruin of their dishonour after viewing the assembled ancestors of humanity.
Enoch lamented both his own infirmity and the matching weakness shared by all his forefathers.
He called blessed the man never born, who thus never enters this place or bears its yoke.
He also blessed the born man who never sins before the Lord face and so avoids that yoke.
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In brief
Enoch sees all the forefathers from all time with Adam and Eve, sighs, and breaks into tears over the ruin of their dishonour. He laments his infirmity and that of his forefathers, blessing the man unborn or born without sin who avoids this place and its yoke.