Good News Translation
People would suddenly collapse and lie locked in the chains of their own fear.

New Revised Standard Version
for whether they were farmers or shepherds or workers who toiled in the wilderness, they were seized, and endured the inescapable fate; for with one chain of darkness they all were bound.

Contemporary English Version
Every one of the Egyptians--including farmers and shepherds--fell prisoner to the fear of a darkness that was more difficult to escape than iron chains.

New American Bible
For whether one was a farmer, or a shepherd, or a worker at tasks in the wasteland, Taken unawares, each served out the inescapable sentence;

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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.

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.

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

Wisdom 17:17
For 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,

Wisdom 17:18
Or the mighty noise of stones tumbling down, or the running that could not be seen of beasts playing together, or the roaring voice of wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the highest mountains: these things made them to swoon for fear.