Wisdom 17:15LXX

Orthodox Bible · LXX · Verse 15 of 20

"Moreover if any of them had fallen down, he was kept shut up in prison without irons."
Wisdom 17:15

In context

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.

17For they were all bound together with one chain of darkness. Whether it were a whistling wind, or the melodious voice of birds, among the spreading branches of trees, or a fall of water running down with violence,

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