Wisdom 17:14LXX
Orthodox Bible · LXX · Verse 14 of 20
"Were sometimes molested with the fear of monsters, sometimes fainted away, their soul failing them: for a sudden and unlooked for fear was come upon them."
In context
12And while there is less expectation from within, the greater doth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment.
13But they that during that night, in which nothing could be done, and which came upon them from the lowest and deepest hell, slept the same sleep.
14Were sometimes molested with the fear of monsters, sometimes fainted away, their soul failing them: for a sudden and unlooked for fear was come upon them.
15Moreover if any of them had fallen down, he was kept shut up in prison without irons.
16For if any one were a husbandman, or a shepherd, or a labourer in the field, and was suddenly overtaken, he endured a necessity from which he could not fly.