Good News Translation
All night long those people slept the same restless sleep, even though the night held no power over them, since it came from the powerless depths of the world of the dead.

New Revised Standard Version
and now were driven by monstrous specters, and now were paralyzed by their souls’ surrender; for sudden and unexpected fear overwhelmed them.

Contemporary English Version
Night itself is powerless, since it comes from the powerless world of the dead. And yet the Egyptians slept restlessly on that night,

New American Bible
Were partly smitten by fearsome apparitions and partly stricken by their souls’ surrender; for fear overwhelmed them, sudden and unexpected.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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.

Wisdom 17:12
And while there is less expectation from within, the greater doth it count the ignorance of that cause which bringeth the torment.

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

Wisdom 17:16
For 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.