Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Fear is nothing but the failure to use the help that reason gives. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And while there is less expectation from within, the greater doth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment. Wisdom 17:10For whereas wickedness is fearful, it beareth witness of its condemnation: for a troubled conscience always forecasteth grievous things. Wisdom 17:11 For fear is nothing else but a yielding up of the succours from thought. Wisdom 17:13 But 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, Wisdom 17:14 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. Context Wisdom 17…11For fear is nothing else but a yielding up of the succours from thought. 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,… Cross References Wisdom 17:10 For whereas wickedness is fearful, it beareth witness of its condemnation: for a troubled conscience always forecasteth grievous things. Wisdom 17:11 For fear is nothing else but a yielding up of the succours from thought. Wisdom 17:13 But 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, Wisdom 17:14 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. |
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