Those hairs cover not the lips, and the entire lips are red and rosy. As it is written, Cant. v. 13, “His lips as roses.” (In the ordinary version ShVShNIM, Shushanim, is translated “lilies,” not “roses.”
His lips murmur Geburah, Severity, but they also murmur Chokmah, Wisdom.
From those lips alike depend good and evil, life and death.
From these lips depend the Lord of Vigilance. For when those lips murmur, they all are excited to bring forth secret [pg 356] things, as well as the Lords of Judgment in all the tribunals wherein they have their abiding-place.
And therefore are these called the Watchers; as it is written, Dan. iv. 17, “This matter is by the decree of the Watchers, and the demand by the word of the Holy Ones.”
What is a Watcher? In the book of the dissertation that is explained from this passage, 1 Sam. xxviii. 16, “And is become thine enemy.”
Seeing that judgments are stirred up against those who obtain not mercy from the Supernals.
Hence are those stirred up who are the lords of the enmity of all things.
And, nevertheless, in each case are there mercy and judgment. And therefore is it said, Dan. iv. 13, “A watcher and a holy one”; judgment and mercy.
And between those lips when they are opened is the mouth disclosed.