Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch, Slavonic Enoch) 43:2
As one year is more honourable than another, so is one man more honourable than another. This man on account of many possessions, that man on account of the wisdom of the heart; this man on account of understanding, another on account of cunning; this man for the silence of the lips; this man on account of purity, that on account of strength; this man on account of comeliness, another on account of youth; this man on account of sharpness of mind, another on account of quicksightedness of body, and another for the perception of many things.
Background and history of Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch, Slavonic Enoch), and issues with this book.
W. R. Morfill’s translation from the Slavonic, edited with introduction, notes, and indices by R. H. Charles, The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896). Public domain in the United States. Morfill died in 1909 and Charles died in 1931, so the book is in the public domain in the United Kingdom. The verses are transcribed from the Internet Archive scan bookofsecretsofe00morf. Charles’s footnotes, exegetical notes, and bracketed section headings are left out. Charles prints the longer A text and gives B and Sokolov’s manuscript in his notes. Square brackets inside verses are his.