Wisdom 17:8-10

Revised Standard Version

⁸ For those who promised to drive off the fears and disorders of a sick soul
were sick themselves with ridiculous fear.
⁹ For even if nothing disturbing frightened them,
yet, scared by the passing of beasts and the hissing of serpents,
¹⁰ they perished in trembling fear,
refusing to look even at the air, though it nowhere could be avoided.