Wisdom 17:15-17

Common English Bible

¹⁵ monsters from their own imaginations rose up and hunted them down. They were paralyzed with fear as their spirits failed them. A sudden and unexpected fear drenched their whole being. ¹⁶ All who fell into that kind of place became like prisoners, locked up in cells without metal bars. ¹⁷ Whether they were farmers or shepherds or laborers toiling alone in the desert, the same fate overtook them all, and they were all bound in the darkness as by a single chain.