Book V - Snyder Bible

The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 165
works previously, and without any labors were treated as the
friends of Yahweh.
Chapter XI: Suffering Salutary
abors
and afflictions are assigned as a remedy to men languishing
in the vanity of such thoughts. And when labor and
tribulations came upon them, they were excluded from the
place of delights and amenity. Also the earth began to produce
turned in them, they were warned to seek the aid of their
Creator, and by prayers and vows to ask for the divine protection.
And thus it came to pass, that the worship of Yahweh,
which they had neglected by reason of their prosperity, they
recovered through their adversity; and their thoughts towards
Yahweh, which indulgence had perverted, affliction corrected.
So therefore Yahweh, seeing that this was more profitable to
man, removed from them the ways of benignity and abundance,
as being hurtful, and introduced the way of vexation
and tribulation.
Chapter XII: Translation of Enoch
ut that He might show that these things were done on
account of the ungrateful, He translated to immortality a certain
one of the first race of men, because He saw that he was
not unmindful of His grace, and because he hoped to call on
the name of Yahweh; while the rest, who were so ungrateful
that they could not be amended and corrected even by labors
and tribulations, were condemned to a terrible death. Yet
amongst them also He found a certain one, who was righteous
with his house, whom He preserved, having enjoined him to
build the tayvah, in which he and those who were commanded
to go with him might escape, when all things should be destroyed
by a deluge: in order that, the wicked being cut off by
the overflow of waters, the world might receive a purification;
and he who had been preserved for the continuance of the
race, being purified by water, might anew repair the world.