Wisdom 17:5-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ And no power of fire was able to give light,
nor did the brilliant flames of the stars
avail to illumine that hateful night.
⁶ Nothing was shining through to them
except a dreadful, self-kindled fire,
and in terror they deemed the things which they saw
to be worse than that unseen appearance.
⁷ The delusions of their magic art lay humbled,
and their boasted wisdom was scornfully rebuked.