⁹ But even the archangel^(A) Michael,^(B) when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses,^(C) did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”^{[a](D) 10} Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.^(E)

¹¹ Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain;^(F) they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error;^(G) they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.^(H)

¹² These people are blemishes at your love feasts,^(I) eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves.^(J) They are clouds without rain,^(K) blown along by the wind;^(L) autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted^(M)—twice dead. ¹³ They are wild waves of the sea,^(N) foaming up their shame;^(O) wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.^(P)

¹⁴ Enoch,^(Q) the seventh from Adam, prophesied about them: “See, the Lord is coming^(R) with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones^{(S) 15} to judge^(T) everyone, and to convict all of them of all the ungodly acts they have committed in their ungodliness, and of all the defiant words ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”^[b](U)