Wisdom 17:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁰ they perished in trembling fear,
refusing to look even at the air, though it nowhere could be avoided.
¹¹ For wickedness is a cowardly thing, condemned by its own testimony;^[a]
distressed by conscience, it has always exaggerated^[b] the difficulties.
¹² For fear is nothing but a giving up of the helps that come from reason;