Wisdom 17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1885, 1895(RV1895)

1For interpret;

Therefore souls sundered one from another by a dark curtain of forgetfulness,

Stricken with terrible awe, and sore troubled by the dark recesses that held them guard them from fears,

But rushing down rang around them,

And And they lay helpless, for very trembling,

Refusing even to look on the air, which could on no side be escaped.

11 For wickedness, forecasteth the worst lot:

12For fear is nothing else but came upon them.

16So then every man, whosoever it might be, sinking down the hollows of the mountains,

Cp. Ps. 53.5. All these things paralysed them with terror.

20 See Ex. 10.23. For the whole world beside was enlightened with clear light,

And was occupied with unhindered works;

21 Ex. 10.22. While over them alone was spread a heavy night,

An image of the darkness Cp. Job 18.18 & 2 Pet. 2.17 & Jude 13.that should afterward receive them;

But yet heavier than darkness were they Cp. Jer. 20.4.unto themselves.