Good News Translation
Not even the dark corners where they lay could protect them from fear. They were surrounded by horrible noises; grim ghosts with gloomy faces appeared before their eyes.

New Revised Standard Version
And no power of fire was able to give light, nor did the brilliant flames of the stars avail to illumine that hateful night.

New American Bible
No fire had force enough to give light, nor did the flaming brilliance of the stars succeed in lighting up that gloomy night.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For neither did the den that held them, keep them from fear: for noises coming down troubled them, and sad visions appearing to them, affrighted them.

For neither did the den that held them, keep them from fear: for noises coming down troubled them, and sad visions appearing to them, affrighted them.

Wisdom 17:2
For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.

Wisdom 17:3
And while they thought to lie hid in their obscure sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfullness, being horribly afraid, and troubled with exceeding great astonishment.

Wisdom 17:5
And no power of fire could give them light, neither could the bright flames of the stars enlighten that horrible night.

Wisdom 17:6
But there appeared to them a sudden fire, very dreadful: and being struck with the fear of that face, which was not seen, they thought the things which they saw to be worse: